Bring your son to chase after your wife, please go home

Chapter 120
"Old man, look at this..." Baili Changge looked at the old man with a hunched back at the door.

"I'm going out, what do you want to check, come back another day." Qin Kaiming glanced at the two of them with displeasure, and walked out again with a cold expression.

"Let's go, His Royal Highness King Jin!" Baili Changge shrugged, "It seems that the two of us are very unpopular."

Ye Hen didn't speak, he glanced around, and finally locked on the side of the candlestick, his expression changed, and he walked over.

With his fingertips, he gently picked up a piece of paper that had been burned so that no writing could be seen and asked her: "Is there a way to restore the writing on it?"

Baili Changge was a little helpless, if it was okay in modern times, it would not be pediatrics to know the contents of this piece of paper with all kinds of high technology, but now it is in a place like Chuzhou, let alone recovering handwriting, Whether or not this piece of paper can be taken back in its entirety is a question.

She shook her head, "It's not impossible, it's just that it takes a long time to extract the juice that can fade the color of this paper." Then she said: "Why don't we go to the shop that sells pens and inks, maybe someone knows how to make burnt paper show color. The method of handwriting is also not certain."

Ye Hen nodded, found a blank piece of paper and carefully wrapped the half of the burnt paper, and the two of them left Qin Dai's room.

The old man Qin Kaiming was still sitting under the green tree, with endless smoke rings in his mouth. He leaned against the thick tree trunk behind him, squinting his eyes slightly, and the warm sun at noon illuminated a strand of white hair on his temples.

Baili Changge wanted to go forward to ask for more useful information, but Ye Hen pulled the corner of her clothes, so she simply gave up.

After leaving the yard of Qin Dai's house, the two of them passed the big banyan tree where they came, and saw a woman squatting on the lawn, digging a hole with a small iron catalpa in her hand, and from time to time put the children's fashionable toys in the bamboo basket next to her. Buried in the pit.

Baili Changge felt very strange, so she walked over and asked her, "Mother, these things are still new, why don't you want them?"

Hearing this, the woman raised her head and glanced around, then said in a low voice: "Oh, these things were originally sent by the daughter of the old man Qin's family. My four-year-old daughter was so sticky when she was still alive." She's gone, and I often go to their house to play, but now that Miss Qin has gone, I can't keep these things at home, lest I get bad luck."

Glancing at Baili Changge, the woman asked: "Just now I saw the little brother walk out of old man Qin's house, are you sent by the yamen to investigate the case?"

Baili Changge nodded, "Auntie, do you know who did the bridal makeup for Miss Qin the night she died?"

"I don't know about this." The woman said: "Qin Dai has no mother since she was a child, and she didn't have a hairdresser after she got married. I went to invite Grandma Sun personally that day, but I didn't expect that she would put off her makeup before this time." It's all up, and when we went to the yard to call her on the second watch, there was no one in the room. Do you think it's strange that the person who is about to enter the sedan chair is about to enter, so what is she going out to do with makeup on? "

"Did no one see her when she ran out?" Baili Changge asked.

"I don't know." The woman frowned and said, "It was agreed that I would go to her house to comb her hair in the third watch, but when I took Grandma Sun there, old man Qin told me that the girl had disappeared long ago, and a group of people suddenly ran into chaos. I went out to look for it with a lantern, and I searched around here all night but I didn’t find it, but I heard the news the next day..." After speaking, he sighed again and continued to bury things in the pit.

Baili Changge recalled the woman's words carefully, and asked, "You just said that Qin Dai had no mother since she was a child, what's going on?"

"I also heard from the old man in the village." The woman lowered her voice, "Qin Dai's mother abandoned their father and daughter and ran away with an official man when she was very young. The old man Qin took all his anger on For Qin Dai, she even sold her to human traffickers. Speaking of it, old man Qin was lucky. Qin Dai came back after many twists and turns for several years. Where did I learn the skill of playing the piano, and I opened my own piano shop, and I heard that it is quite profitable, old man Qin is greedy for money, so he has an eye for money, so he holds her in his palm like a treasure."

The woman also said that when Qin Dai and Pan Yang were married, Qin Dai's mother and Pan Yang's mother were very close, but Qin Dai's mother ran away with the man and ruined her reputation. He was very dissatisfied with the marriage, and originally wanted to find an opportunity to come and propose to the old man Qin to regret the marriage, but unexpectedly, more than two months ago, Pan Yang suddenly mentioned this marriage, and not long after, Pan Yang came to Qin Dai's house to propose marriage in person.

"It sounds like a happy story of a rainy day and a full moon."

On the way back, Baili Changge leaned wearily against the side wall of the carriage and held his forehead, "But why did Qin Dai run out that night?"

"A woman dresses up carefully before she dies. There are two situations." She said: "One is when she knows she is about to face death and dresses up specially, and the other is when something unexpected happens after she dresses up." Then She tilted her head and asked Ye Hen, "Which possibility do you think is more likely?"

"Naturally, it's the second type." Ye Hen said without thinking, "You saw it that night, she and Xu Luo were obviously looking for something in the cauldron, and that thing was so important that these two people would not hesitate to pay for it." The price of life, if she had expected her own death early in the morning, there was no need for her to put on such a heavy bridal gown after makeup and run to the foot of Qinglian Mountain."

"Then according to your inference, Qin Dai received an extremely important message during the period after putting on makeup, and that message was the reason why she had to wear her wedding dress and run to the altar overnight?" Li Changge asked.

Ye Hen lifted the half of the paper wrapped in white paper in his hand and looked at the light, "I think the reason why Qin Dai ran out is probably on this piece of paper."

Baili Changge glanced at the paper, "If the writing on it can be restored, it will be a key to solving the case."

"Where are we going now?" The carriage got out of the alley, and after walking for a while, Baili Changge couldn't help but lift the curtain to admire the surrounding street view.

"I see you are a bit tired, go back and rest, you haven't healed from the cold, so it's not appropriate to blow the cold wind." Ye Hen said, pulling back the cloak that had slid down to her shoulders, and smoothing her somewhat messy sideburns along the way.

"Yesterday, I seem to have heard Wei Yu say that Xu Luo's family members are here to take the body back." Baili Changge lowered his head, trying to hide the blush on his face, "Let's go see Xu Luo's younger brother first!"

(End of this chapter)