Don't be clouded

Chapter 45 Confession

Ji Bieyun and Dai Fengmao were both taken aback.

"Afraid?" Ji Bieyun glanced at Deputy Captain Dai, "I'm so friendly, and I don't look like the kind of person who would beat up people at any time. Why are you afraid of me?"

Dai Fengmao hesitated to speak, although he didn't say a word about him, but he felt that every word had something to do with him.Hurt, sad.

Guan Chen lowered his eyes and said, "It's better to let the poor monk try it."

Ji Bieyun immediately retorted: "Is it possible? Why do you ask a monk, maybe you want to read scriptures for her?"

Dai Fengmao grabbed his arm and pulled him away, "Master Guanchen is the most friendly among us, little girls like good-looking and compassionate ones, let him try."

Ji Bieyun stared at him, why did he feel that he was being scolded?

Where is he not good-looking and not friendly?

Relying on his size advantage, Deputy Captain Dai pulled Ji Bieyun out of the firewood room, went back and explained the current situation to Guanchen, and came out soon, closing the door behind him.

Ji Bieyun stood guard at the door in a bad mood, and cast a cold glance at Dai Fengmao, "You are very good, after returning to Beijing, do you want to go to Xuanqing Temple to shave a degree and become a monk? Learn from the beautiful and compassionate Master Guanchen." .”

The four brothers next to him came up to join in the fun, and one of them named Geng Xiang asked curiously, "When did we, Brother Dai, see through the world?"

"Go away, go back and stand still." Dai Fengmao waved away people.

Ji Bieyun sneered, "What are you doing with a monk involved, for fun?"

Dai Fengmao finally came to his senses, and said a thousand times, "I thought you had no place to play, so it turned out that you were worried about that monk."

"That monk, be more respectful," he corrected, "He has a dharma name."

"Then why don't you call him Dharma name?"

Dai Fengmao sometimes respects Ji Bieyun, sometimes he doesn't care about his superiority or inferiority.For example, right now, he feels that Ji Bieyun is too protective of Guanchen, as if he has personal affection, so he really wants to remind him not to play favoritism on public affairs.

But Dai Fengmao didn't dare to remind.This person looks too sick, his eyes are not red, but he looks a little irritable, maybe it's because he didn't have much rest?

Ji Bieyun glanced at Deputy Captain Dai coldly, and didn't mention the matter of Guanchen Dharma, but instead asked, "Have you been to the scene of the murder?"

That place had already been investigated by the Chongzhou local government, and all the corpses had been transported to the Dali Temple in Chenjing. Moreover, they had been burned, so he didn't expect to find any useful clues.

Dai Fengmao nodded, "After a rough search, I haven't found anything so far. Don't go, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it."

He wondered: "What kind of person am I in your hearts, can't even bear this?"

Before Deputy Captain Dai could answer, the man named Geng Xiang approached him again, "Deputy Captain Dai said that you have thin skin and tender flesh, so you are really not suitable for being exposed to the wind and sun like us."

Dai Fengmao's complexion changed, and he hurriedly winked to tell Geng Xiang to shut up, but it was too late, Ji Bieyun turned his wrist, his brows were faintly more irritable than before.

"Skin and tender meat? Are you going to fight with me again?"

Dai Fengmao stepped in front of Geng Xiang, "Boss, don't start internal strife. I've never arranged for you like this. Don't listen to his nonsense."

In fact, Ji Bieyun just wanted to frighten them, upon hearing this, he said: "Go to the kitchen and get a bowl of food, I haven't eaten today, I'm starving to death."

As soon as Geng Xiang ran away, the door of the firewood room opened.

Before Guanchen closed the door with his backhand, Ji Bieyun seized the time to look inside. The girl sat there dejectedly, her shoulders twitched, as if she was crying.

His heart tightened, and he couldn't bear to look any further, and the door was closed after a moment of stupefaction.

Dai Fengmao asked one step ahead of him: "Why do you still call people crying?"

"Wait until she finishes crying before going in." Guan Chen clasped his hands together with a compassionate face.

Ji Bieyun looked at Guanchen's eyebrows and eyes, a little curious about how this person talked to Gu Shanyue, but he didn't ask when the words came to his lips.In fact, he probably knew that Guanchen couldn't do such things as coercion and profiteering.

What an upright person, he looks despicable standing on the sidelines.

After a while, when the sound of gasping in the room subsided, they went in again.

Gu Shanyue was no longer crying, she just stared at a piece of dry grass on the ground in a daze, and she didn't respond when they came in.

It took a while before he spoke, his tone numb.

"The governor often goes to Fengyu Tower."

The first sentence made Ji Bieyun tense up.

"Occasionally, they will bring people over to discuss matters, sometimes it is Chang Shi, sometimes it is other people. But they speak very secretly, and they will push back others." Gu Shanyue's voice was almost undulating, "But when the governor is drunk, he will be in the office. The sisters boasted to him, saying that no one would dare to trouble him, so let the sisters keep their own place and don't think about things they shouldn't."

After the voice fell, the girl calmed down for a long time.

"I was young before, so I didn't go in to serve the governor. Until later, once... once the governor was having a banquet at the mansion, and he called the girls from Fengyulou to join the fun, and I went too."

Gu Shanyue's lips were trembling, tears dripped down uncontrollably, hitting the ground one by one.

Ji Bieyun couldn't bear to listen.

Gu Shanyue is only 14 years old now, how old was she before?

He turned and walked away, but a hand grabbed his arm.Guan Chen firmly pulled him back, but said to the girl, "You don't have to hold back, you can finish crying."

The girl shook her head and said stubbornly: "I'm going to say now, I saw a guest there, he said he came from Beijing, it's..."

The voice stopped abruptly, and Gu Shanyue tightly closed her lips.

"What is it?" Ji Bieyun felt that what Gu Shanyue didn't say was extremely important, so he couldn't help asking.

"I won't say the rest now. Although this master said that you are good officials, I won't believe it easily." The girl raised her eyes and looked at them bitterly, "Officials are full of snakes and rats, or you Send me to the emperor, or let all the people in Chongzhou who are hiding out come out. They owe Fengyulou, and they will have to pay it back sooner or later... don't think about being a coward and pushing everything to us!"

Owe Fengyulou?

The more Ji Bieyun heard it, the more complicated it became. Even though he knew that Gu Shanyue would not say it lightly, he still asked, "What do they owe Feng Yulou? And what are they pushing on you?"

"The Miemen case is the revenge of those wronged souls in Fengyulou after death, don't they think so?" Gu Shanyue looked over with sharp eyes like a whip.

Ji Bieyun was speechless for a while.

He used to think that the people of Chongzhou were in danger of staying behind closed doors, and they were afraid that the blood of the extermination case would affect him.If what Gu Shanyue said is true, then these people probably know a little or two of the truth, but they dare not reveal it, and they are wise and safe.

This world...

Why do innocent people suffer so much and find it hard to see hope even if they want to save themselves?

Afterwards they asked again, but Gu Shanyue refused to say anything.

There was a knock on the firewood room door, and Geng Xiang's voice sounded through the door: "Boss, the food is ready."

Guan Chen looked at him, "Let's go out and eat something."

Ji Bieyun didn't want to give up on Gu Shanyue's clue easily, and refused to leave. In the end, Guan Chen and Dai Fengmao took him out by one arm, half-forcibly.

He was taken to the main hall of the post house, and under the watchful eyes of all the people, he ate Lengtao locust leaves, feeling uncomfortable all over.

The noodles have the fragrance of locust leaf juice, which is very refreshing, but he has no appetite.Gu Shanyue's words were still lingering in his ears, and he couldn't help but think about it all the time, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes in and out of the hall were watching him eat, it's strange to have an appetite.Especially the eyes of Guanchen next to him, who never moved away for a moment, and didn't know what's so interesting about him eating something.

Ji Bieyun put down his chopsticks and said seriously, "Have you checked Cai Han's residence?"

Dai Fengmao was staring at the bowl of pasta in a daze, but when he was asked about it suddenly, he turned his eyes and came back to his senses, "Not yet."

"I haven't checked yet. Are you embarrassed to sit here and watch me eat? Or are you hungry too?" Ji Bieyun took advantage of it.

Deputy Captain Dai's mouth was faster than his brain: "The big guys have eaten it all, and this bowl is left over."

There was silence all around, only Master Guan Chen chuckled.

Dai Fengmao regretted it at the beginning, and was wondering whether to admit his mistake, so he heard Ji Bieyun say: "It's almost sunset, let's go to Cai Han's house together later. The news that Gu Shanyue was brought here must have spread all over Chongzhou. Be careful in case someone wants to silence you."

"You haven't had a rest in almost two days, so you should stay in the post house and sleep for a while." Dai Fengmao disapproved, "I'm afraid you will fall off your horse, what should we do if you fall stupid? Everyone is still waiting You bring us back to Chenjing with honor."

"...Can't you wait for me to order?" Ji Bieyun was almost speechless, he lowered his head and finished eating the locust leaves in the bowl, ignoring those eyes.

After finishing eating, put the chopsticks away, and stood up, "Prepare the horse, I'll tell Gu Shanyue myself."

"Hey wait!" Deputy Captain Dai stopped him, looked at Guan Chen, "What should Master do?"

He turned around and looked at Guan Chen, "You should be less involved, it's not a good thing, I'll send you out of the city later."

The monk raised his head and replied, "I want to go."

Ji Bieyun couldn't stand such open and clear eyes, and sighed, "Forget it, prepare an extra horse."

After receiving the order, Dai Fengmao hurried to prepare the horses. Before leaving, he glanced at the master sitting there, and sighed in his heart that he really had an affair.

However, as soon as he looked back, he met Ji Bieyun's unfriendly gaze, and he shuddered suddenly.

"What are you dawdling in, go quickly."

"This is not the way to go!" Dai Fengmao was not happy when he was murdered, and went to the stables cursing.