Chapter 41
Chapter 40
Qianjiang District is not as prosperous as Wanhe District. It is located on the outskirts of the city, and there is a bit of traffic jam on the road. They are still on the road for two hours. Lin Qiang smoked with one hand and drove with the other. He scurried left and right in the city's traffic, finding his way around every corner. When he got out of the urban area, he began to show his superb racing skills.
Yixiu was sitting in the passenger seat, holding the armrest of the car with one hand, and the seat belt with the other hand on his chest, and said with a pale face, "Don't worry, benefactor." , I don’t want to go to see my Buddha so early.
Shen Mo was also a little motion sick from being thrown by him, his face was ashen, as if he was going to vomit at any time. Suddenly his right arm was encircled, and his warm body leaned against him. A pair of small hands held his hand, and pressed his fingers firmly on his Hegu acupoint.
"Mentor, is it hard?"
Shen Mo didn't answer, looking at the short, white and tender fingers, they were clearly children's hands. When Shen Koudan was as old as Jiang Xiaosi, he was much taller than her. His hands were full of calluses and scars, and his eyes were prematurely mature and resolute.
They are all children without parents, and they are self-willed and confused in their bones. Why can Jiang Xiaosi not know sorrow, but Kou Dan has to live so tiredly under the mask? I did it myself, no Jiangliu?
Apart from sleeping and drinking, Koudan has almost no other hobbies, and his daily life is a cycle of ghost hunting. I remember at that time, she and Kou Qing used hands much smaller than Jiang Xiaosi, one of them dragged herself to ask for candy, the other pulled her to the left and said to go to see the fish, and the other pulled her to the right and said Go fly a kite.
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Shen Mo closed his eyes, and let Jiang Xiaosi's soft hand gently pinch it. When the cold fingertips touched it, he felt a slight numbness, waving away the strangeness in his heart. He frowned, does this girl always have such cold hands in winter?
Jiang Xiaosi suddenly felt that his hand was covered by another hand, his heart trembled, as if being scratched by someone, his face turned red unexpectedly. Feeling a little guilty, he sneaked a glance ahead. Lin Qiang was driving, and Yixiu closed his eyes and probably kept chanting scriptures in his heart to pray for safety.
She tucked her other hand into Shen Mo's armpit to keep warm, pretending to be dozing off and leaning her head on his shoulder. She knew that Shen Mo always treated her like a child, another Shen Koudan to discipline and take care of her. But, there must still be a little liking, right? As long as he no longer guards against himself and avoids himself, then she will be able to capture his heart one day.
After not sleeping for a long time, the car stopped, Jiang Xiaosi opened his eyes, and found that he didn't know when he had changed from sleeping on Shen Mo's shoulder to sleeping on his lap, and Shen Mo's hand that was originally covering the back of her hand It was over her head at the moment.
She was stunned for a moment, and seeing Lin Qiang and Yixiu looking back at her, she hurriedly wiped the drool from the corner of her mouth, and straightened up embarrassingly. Shen Mo also woke up at this moment, and looked at the desolate scenery outside the window.
"Are you there?"
Lin Qiang shook his head: "There is no way, you have to walk to Jinhu Lake"
"what time is it?"
"It's almost five o'clock." Lin Qiang seemed a little anxious. He originally wanted to bring someone over yesterday, otherwise, if it takes a long time, who knows what accidents will happen to Xiao Tang. But Shen Mofei said it was okay, even if he came early, he couldn't find anyone.
Several people got out of the car and walked forward.
Walking a short mountain road, passing through a small forest, suddenly opened up.
"The lake isn't too small, it's so cold, how could someone come all the way here to commit suicide." Jiang Xiaosi couldn't figure it out.
"Don't look at it now, the scenery in summer is quite good."
"You came before?"
"I went to see the case of Hao Hong's disappearance a year ago. I judged from the suicide note and some items found here that she committed suicide, but the body was not found. Don't look at the calm surface of the lake. There are many undercurrents at the bottom of the lake. Where did the volume go, and there is no way to dig too deep to find it.”
"This lake often drowns people, right?" Shen Mo looked around, surrounded by mountains on three sides, it was a pattern of nourishing yin and accepting water.
Lin Qiang nodded: "So although the scenery is beautiful, it is also far away from people."
Shen Mo squatted down, and used small stones to pile up two strange shapes by the lake.
"What is this?" Jiang Xiaosi also knelt down to help him pick up stones.
"Horses and birds."
"Huh?" Jiang Xiaosi's eyes widened, and she naturally thought it was the talisman he used to find Xiao Tang.
"This is more abstract than the constellations in the sky." Even if she was killed, she couldn't tell where she looked like a horse and where she looked like a bird.
"What time is it?" Shen Mo asked.
Lin Qiang looked at his watch, worried, and lit a cigarette again: "It's six o'clock soon, and the wedding banquet is about to begin."
"Don't worry, it's coming."
A huge wave surged in the distance, and it was pushed in front of them in an instant. The wave seemed to be frozen, a door appeared in the middle, and a bright red blanket was spread across the water from the door.
Lin Qiang's face was paralyzed, and he didn't even realize that the cigarette fell on the ground. I have seen many supernatural events together with Shen Mo over the years in solving cases, but none of them are so fantastic.
Shen Mo stepped onto the red carpet first and entered the door, Jiang Xiaosi and the others also followed.
The surroundings slowly lit up, Jiang Xiaosi stared at everything in front of him dumbfounded, and his first reaction was: They passed through...
There are people coming and going on the street, all of them are wearing ancient clothes. Looking up, there are four gold-plated characters on the black-bottomed signboard opposite: "Jinhu Restaurant."
At this time, the sky was not yet dark, and the setting sun was just in time, hanging in the sky, but the inside and outside of the restaurant were already decorated with lights and festoons. Not far away, there were lion dancers beating gongs, drums and setting off firecrackers.
Jiang Xiaosi saw that the sign at the door was tied with red silk, and the names "Tang Xingzhi" and "Lu Xiaowan" were written on the red paper, so he turned to Lin Qiang curiously, "So Xiao Tang's name is Tang Xingzhi?"
Lin Qiang frowned and shook his head: "No."
"Did we go the wrong way?" Jiang Xiaosi was scratching his head, and two aunts who looked a bit like brothel procuresses came forward to greet them with smiles.
"It's Mr. Shen and Mr. Lin, please take a seat inside."
Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, wondering what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd. At this time, the aunt wearing fake flowers on her head pulled Jiang Xiaosi and said: "This girl is so beautiful, did she agree with her? Miss Lu's brother is a dragon and a phoenix. After finishing his sister's wedding, he is planning to Marriage asked me to find a girl from a good family..."
"It's already promised, thank you." Jiang Xiaosi interrupted her hastily, too lazy to listen to her, this person is a matchmaker, and the identification has been completed. Over the past thousand years, she has met many matchmakers who have matched her for her father.
"Already promised? Oh, what a pity, which son is so lucky."
Jiang Xiaosi chuckled and pointed at Shen Mo with his finger. Seeing Shen Mo turn his head and stare, he quickly stopped and stood at attention, letting the matchmaker pull her in.
Shen Mo found that not only did Jiang Xiaosi not know what shyness was, but he also didn't know how to write the word "fear" under any circumstances. He could only attribute this to the fact that Jiang Liu protected her too well and didn't let her see it. Over what is the real danger.
Several people walked in, and the wine tables filled the hall and upstairs. The matchmaker led them to sit at a table by the window, and the banquet hadn't officially started yet. There were a total of eight people at this table, Jiang Xiaosi tried to talk to the girl next to him who kept eating melon seeds.
"Sister, where is this place?"
The girl glanced at her, and saw that she was cute, with a sweet mouth, but she was dressed a little strangely.
"This is Xiaoli Village, are you from outside?"
Jiang Xiaosi didn't know what outside she was talking about, so he nodded indiscriminately: "Where are the groom and the bride?"
"I will come out to worship heaven and earth in a while."
"There are so many people! It's so lively."
"Yes, Miss Lu's family is very happy today, everyone in the village came to drink wedding wine, and the tables were all placed across the street.
As he spoke, he handed over the melon seeds, and Jiang Xiaosi took it and fed it into his mouth, but Shen Mo secretly pinched her thigh, she was so excited that she almost screamed, and she spilled all the melon seeds.
Hastily said sorry to the other party in embarrassment, and turned to look at Shen Mo. Seeing that her cheeks were flushed, and her cheeks puffed up with anger, Shen Mo couldn't help laughing, and gave her a slight wink to tell her not to be greedy.
Jiang Xiaosi shrugged his nose, and when he looked up, he saw a man walking into the hall. He was dressed in brocade and fox fur, with a slender figure, and a pair of ink and red phoenix eyes smiling brightly, making everyone present feel that he was the only one who was looking at him.
Quickly asked the Guazi girl next to her, "Who is that person?"
"The eldest son of the Lu family, Miss Lu's older brother."
Jiang Xiaosiguo saw him sitting in the high hall, his movements were flowing like clouds and flowing water, and he was indescribably wanton. Just like her, most of the young girls and married aunts in the field stared straight.
"Why, regret that you rejected the matchmaker just now?" Yixiu said abruptly.
"Where is there..." Jiang Xiaosi hurriedly looked away reluctantly, waved his hands again and again, looked at Shen Mo looking away as if he didn't hear what they said, and wished to rush forward to confess again, her love for her mentor is as bright as the sun and the moon!
Lin Qiang looked around, and asked in a low voice: "Are these people around me illusioned, or..."
"It's all ghosts, and there are some goblins and fish monsters." Shen Mo took the wine glass on the table, tapped it lightly, and the wine glass turned into a shell, and knocked again, and it turned back into a wine glass.
Jiang Xiaosi opened his mouth, curiously tapping his own on the table.
"What should I do now?" Lin Qiang asked. It's not that he has never seen a ghost, but when he thinks that there are so many people sitting around him, he will inevitably get a little hairy. It is a bit difficult to rob the groom.
Shen Mo calmly and habitually raised the teacup at hand to drink tea, but suddenly remembered that he was not at home, and put down the teacup again, causing Jiang Xiaosi to reach out excitedly, wanting revenge for the salty pig's hand that pinched him, and shrunk bitterly. went back.
"I don't know where Xiao Tang is hidden, why not wait here for him to come out to worship."
Lin Qiang was taken aback, "Do you really want him to marry that pink Piaopiao?"
Jiang Xiaosi nodded again and again, with a smirk: "Xiao Tang was born well, and Pink Piao Piao fell in love with it. It's not surprising that he wants to **** it back and become the husband of the village. I think Xiao Tang also likes him, maybe it is I am willing to stay here to pay homage, goblins and ghosts are not necessarily all bad people, let's take a look at the situation first, and don't meddle indiscriminately and ruin other people's good deeds."
"If this was the case, he wouldn't have called for help." Lin Qiang's face was as dark as Bao Gong's.
"Ah! Come out!" Seeing the people around laughing and booing, Jiang Xiaosi saw the bridegroom officer and the bride walking out of the inner hall slowly in red gowns.
(end of this chapter)