None of the deceased sent to the autopsy room died normally. Her mission is to let the murderer's crimes be analyzed through the corpse and make them pay the price.
But every time she saw the farewell between the family members and the deceased, she would feel sad.
Qin Yugu felt very lucky. It was clear that as a military doctor on the battlefield, she had become numb to the passing of human life, but she found the humanity she had lost during her years as a forensic doctor.
This feeling of guilt is proof that she is still "Qin Yugu", not the poor girl who died in the fire, but the former forensic doctor Qin Yugu who traveled from modern times.
Seeing that she didn't respond for a long time, Nan Shu looked dissatisfied. He took out a red dice cup from his arms, and there was the sound of something small clinking and shaking in it.
"He's still a stubborn guy. If you can't talk it out... then you give me a chance!"
Originally he didn't plan to use the exquisite dice, but now she seemed to be in a bad mood, so he specially performed it for this girl so that she could see what he was capable of!
The girl looked at the dice cup. Nan Shu originally thought that an ignorant wild girl like her would not recognize this thing, but Qin Yugu blurted it out.
"Are you actually a croupier?"
The plan in his mind failed again, and Nan Shu looked embarrassed. He thought Qin Yugu would ask the question first, but now he asked the question first.
"How do you recognize this dice cup? There are no casinos in this county!"
Ordinary small-time gamblers would not use tools like dice cups, not to mention that only professional dealers can use them with ease.
I also wanted her to show a surprised expression, but it failed again!
Huo Yin, on the other hand, is it great to have some supernatural powers? The empire is not only the royal family, but also has an amazing number of people with supernatural powers!
But she was very curious about that not-so-extraordinary ability, and didn't care about the new gadgets he could come up with, which made Nan Shu very unbalanced.
I really wonder if she is from this era. She has so much weird knowledge, but very little common sense!
"Casino?" Qin Yugu and Nan Shu looked at each other and suddenly realized that the young man was doubting themselves. He felt guilty for no reason and quickly looked away——
"Hey... this... this is not something that the old man in our village has always been good at. There was one among the funerary objects before he died... I... haven't I seen this before..."
"Can you look me in the eyes when you lie?" Nan Shu didn't bother to analyze the loopholes in her words, "Forget it if you don't want to say it. Everyone has their own secrets anyway, and I'm not interested in knowing yours."
Qin Yugu nodded in approval. She was indeed not good at lying to people she knew well, not to mention that Nan Shu was very sensitive to deception...
Looking at the dice cup in his hand with interest, her eyebrows were curved, and her thin cheeks looked soft and flawless against the moonlight, which made Nan Shu's eyes dazzle.
"You know how to use this, right? Show me how to use it~"
It was rare for her to follow his wishes and put on an interested expression, but Nan Shu felt a little regretful.
When this girl is not against her, her obedient and obedient attitude is simply too pretty!
In fact, he has always known that Qin Yugu is a standard beauty, but her previous life was too difficult and her body was thin, so she looked very unattractive.
If she could be by his side, he would definitely make Qin Yugu live a very good life, better than most girls!
Wearing a good-looking dress and gaining a little fatter figure, her beauty can be stunning without even the need for makeup.
This girl is quirky, but her cunning reveals a level of wisdom and wisdom that he has never seen in ordinary women. She is even more knowledgeable than most talented men.
It’s about talent, but also about talent and learning!
At least... what she revealed in front of him, Nan Shu felt was much more useful than the etiquette and rules learned by the rotten scholars in the court!
Not to mention that she is a woman from a poor rural area. Those people rely on several generations of family background and connections to have resources and status.
The young man was stunned for a long time, feeling anxious and depressed. Qin Yugu waved his hand in front of him.
"What? Do you want to go back on your word?" Her next words made Nan Shu's heart, which had just been somewhat fond of her, cool down. "Did you actually take it out because you don't know how to use it, so you took it out specifically to surprise me?"
"Come on! Of course I can use it!"
Nan Shu stood up angrily, holding the dice cup firmly in his hand, trying to prove himself in front of her.
"There are six dice in the dice cup. Just name any number! I can roll it out!"
Qin Yugu looked at Nan Shu with a smile on his face, making his face turn red.
Like a child, so childish!
Are you so unconvinced and want to prove yourself in front of her? He even made a little joke before, but he still minded so much...
She can actually compete with the man who gave her the jade pendant!
"Then four four two two three five!"
She didn't think much and said a series of numbers, catching Nan Shu off guard.
"You...you don't even think about it?"
"I just said it casually. Since you, dealer Nan, are highly skilled, even if I just randomly say a number, it should be what I want!"
"Of course!" Nan Shu felt that she seemed to be mocking him. He pressed both ends of the dice cup with both hands and made smooth movements. It was pleasing to the eye and also attracted Qin Yugu's attention.
She had only seen the croupier rolling the dice on TV before, but the actor's skills were still not as good as those of a real expert like him, but it did gain her experience.
Nan Shu shook the dice attentively. After all the movements were completed, he placed the dice cup in front of Qin Yugu and motioned for her to open the lid.
"Then...I want to open it!"
Nan Shu's face suddenly turned red, and he realized that Qin Yugu had just been watching him shake the dice with great concentration, and it seemed that he didn't even change his posture...
The girl lowered her head and carefully opened the lid of the dice cup. The six dices lay side by side at the bottom of the dice cup, still arranged according to her direction. The number facing up was exactly the number she just said.
"Wow, that's amazing!"
Qin Yugu sincerely admired him this time. His technique was indeed very wonderful. The girl thought that she had watched the whole process without seeing any room for surprise.
If you don’t practice this kind of craft for ten years, you will definitely not be able to reach this level!
"Humph! Of course, I told you not to look down on me in everything!"
Nan Shu always feels that he has regained some face now. Qin Yugu is obviously at least three years younger than him, but he is much more mature and experienced than Nan Shu in doing things!
He considers himself to be smarter and more mature than his peers and even adults who are many years older than him.
In fact, this is indeed the case, otherwise Nan Shu would not have accumulated enough wealth to rival the wealthy gentry Wan Guan at the age of eighteen, and he would not have dared to brag about Haikou and say that he would take her away when he fell in love with Qin Yugu!
"Okay, okay... I don't underestimate you. Nan Shu is a very capable person! You work very hard!"
With a tone of praising her younger brother, the girl stood up, knowing that she still needed to look up at the boy in front of her due to her height, but the encouragement and tenderness in her eyes made him extremely confused.
He thought of the woman from many years ago who looked at him so tenderly and praised him for being excellent and hardworking.
She also smiled softly like this, even though others thought this skill was of no use at all, or even immoral.
But his mother never thought so. If the child is interested in these things, then let him do it.
Although life was very difficult, Nan Shu was also very happy at that time——
Every time he came home, his mother would smile and touch his head:
"A'shu is so good, you are a good boy, you have worked very hard...you will always be my mother's pride!"
The faces of girls and women were completely different, but at this moment, under the catalysis of his memory, they overlapped in his field of vision. The tip of Nan Shu's nose suddenly became sore, and tears welled up in his eyes.
"You...why are you crying?"
He was suddenly so sad that Qin Yugu didn't know what he had done wrong, and he suddenly panicked.
Qin Yugu always regarded men of his age as children in her heart. After all, her mental age was already 28 years old, which was almost a step behind a teenager like him!
She couldn't think of any extra thoughts, and Nan Shu just felt uncomfortable in her heart.
In fact, he came here specifically to find the benefactor who had helped his mother back then, but by the time he found that family... it was too late.
The middle-aged woman’s daughter disappeared mysteriously, and her daughter and son-in-law’s only child was also taken away by human traffickers. She complained to the county government many times, but no one paid attention. Her son’s legs were broken by people from the county government, and he was already dead when he was sent to the hospital.
Got the breath.
After hearing the news of her son's death, her husband was so angry that he lay ill in bed and died of illness a few days later...
Her family was ruined, and even though she was in good health, the woman who had nothing left was heartbroken. Three days before Nanshu arrived in the county town, she poured vegetable oil over herself in front of the graves of her husband and son, setting a fire... In the midst of resentment and dissatisfaction,
Xie Zhong ended his life.
Nan Shu never thought that her benefactor was no longer alive due to accidents. He prepared a large amount of money to compensate her family. What he never expected was...
Not only her benefactor, but also her family members all suffered misfortune because of this ruthless county magistrate!
The dead cannot come back, but the woman's daughter and grandson have not yet found the body. In his last hope, he forged a token of his identity as the imperial governor and lurked in the magistrate's house, hoping to find evidence that they had committed the crime.
Then he met Qin Yugu, and getting along with her made him gradually forget those sad things.
But her appearance brought back memories of Nan Shu's past without any warning, and reminded her of the reason why she came here.
He also thought about the only person in the world who was unconditionally good to him, but could never come back.
Nan Shu didn't cry either, he just held back his tears without saying a word, and didn't explain to Qin Yugu. He looked extremely aggrieved.
He is not usually like this... He rarely trusts anyone... Because he was deceived once, severely deceived once, and even if it was good to him, he was not willing to give his sincerity...
The young man was hurt so deeply that he wrapped himself in the most superficial disguise and became unrecognizable.
But in the final analysis, he is only an eighteen-year-old man. Even in this era, eighteen-year-old is an age when he has both parents and a family.
But he was born with none of these. What the eighteen-year-old Nan Shu was doing was to use deception and concealment to deceive and conceal the injustice that fate had inflicted on him, and to throw it all at the hands of those who tried to make innocent people repeat the same mistakes because of their own selfish desires.
He is as disastrous as he is.
"You...are you okay with your speech...are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere? Let me show you!"
Qin Yugu is now two years old, and she is really not good at dealing with children, especially those who cry.
Naughty children are easy to talk to, and they can be beaten and locked up, but Nan Shu is very obedient.
He didn't cry, but it was more difficult for Qin Yugu than if he cried directly!
The girl didn't care whether Nan Shu would later doubt where her pulse diagnosis and medical skills came from. She reached out to grab his wrist, but he dodged it.
"I'm fine...you...just go away...just wait...just wait!"
He was stammering when he spoke, but he still refused to let go of his last bit of self-respect and face.
He is the son of a lowly slave girl, he doesn't need charity from others!
After his mother died, he was alone, and he will only be alone in this life!
Qin Yugu was angered by Nan Shu's sudden awkwardness and refused to listen to advice. He put his arms around his neck on tiptoes and bumped into him.
The boy's pupils suddenly shrank, and the distance between the two was extremely close.
"Shut up! Just look at me now! Just look at me!"
The girl's forehead was pressed against the boy's forehead, and her delicate facial features and pink lips were also close at hand. The image was so impactful that Nan Shu even forgot the pain of Qin Yugu hitting his forehead.
"I don't care why you're crying! If it's because of me, I'll apologize to you right now!"
Qin Yugu grabbed his head and refused to let go, but he stood on tiptoes and leaned forward again, forcing Nan Shu to protect her with his hands to avoid falling.
The girl at this moment was terribly stubborn. She frowned with impatience, worry, and self-blame for being so resistant.
"I don't know where I offended you. It may have brought back bad memories for you. If that's true, then I won't say another word in the future! If that's not the case, I won't force you to make it clear, but don't
Cry! Don’t reject me either!”
She spoke very quietly, fearing to disturb the government servants who were resting nearby, but she spoke so firmly that every word reached his ears.
"You don't have to trust anyone. Not trusting doesn't mean you don't rely on others. No one in this world can live alone! People must rely on each other! Don't act like everyone in the world is not worthy of trust.
!”
The young man's face was flushed one after another. Qin Yugu said it very seriously. It was not because he was too close that he would blush.
He never thought that she would comfort him so randomly and head-butt others... just like when he and her first met...
"You... why are you always so wanton and reckless..."
He suddenly hugged the girl into his arms, buried his face in the crook of her neck, and sobbed slowly, not caring about the sweat and dirt on Qin Yugu's body.
"I'm a child~ You are three years older than me, so you should know more truth, right? Big brother?"
She smiled and patted Nan Shu's trembling back gently, telling jokes with a relieved smile on her face.
Qin Yu's silver-gray eyes stared at the bright moon that was gradually setting, and his thoughts returned to the distant past——
She was not a liberal arts student to begin with, nor was she a woman who liked romance. She was adopted by a retired soldier and later worked as a military doctor. What she said was very straightforward and simple.
But she understands, she can see... the boy in front of her is exactly the same as her past self in the orphanage!
He is also a person who has nothing, and has been disappointed with many people around him and many things...
Qin Yugu didn't need to know the reason for his crying. He just looked at him as if he saw his past self.
She is not considered to have come out. In the end, until she leaves the world where she still cares, and until she is unable to complete her shortcomings, she has not completely come out.
PTSD, social phobia... the causes and effects after growing up, even though they are now healed due to physical and age regression, all of these are the subsequent effects of her failure to be cared for when she was a child.
She would treat a boy she didn't really know well like this, just hoping that Nan Shu wouldn't follow her own old path...
"Do you feel better now?"
Qin Yugu looked at Nan Shu, whose eyes were swollen, with a sincere and kind smile that made it difficult to tell who was older.
Nan Shu nodded blankly, not knowing whether it was because he was still immersed in the emotion just now, or because his mind was too complicated.
She really surprised him, whether it was her ability...or...her person...
"Then let's start working!"
Qin Yugu changed the topic and slapped Nan Shu on the shoulder. After tying the white cloth, he walked towards the corpses that had completed rigor mortis and removed the branches and ropes used to fix them.
Nan Shu also immediately stepped forward, fixed the mask, and helped her deal with it until dawn.
"Why don't you come with me now...it's still too dangerous..."
The girl asked Nan Shu for a sandbag that had been prepared in advance. The fist-sized sandbag was weighed in her small palm, and she looked very confident.
"Don't worry~ I can even control the rigor mortis time of a corpse. I can definitely handle such trivial matters as fake death~"
Qin Yugu was about to untie his clothes and put on the sandbags when he felt Nan Shu's direct gaze.
"You... turn around..."
"Huh?" He didn't know what the girl was going to do with this sandbag, so he blinked his watery eyes and took two steps forward, "Do you still want my help?"
Qin Yugu shook his head awkwardly——
"No, I want to undress, you turn around..."
This time Nan Shu was so shy that his handsome face turned red. He suddenly dodged to face the wall and rushed to the corner farthest from the girl, even covering his eyes and squatting down.
"Yes, yes... I'm sorry... I don't know... I didn't mean to see... I really didn't!"
Thinking that he had buried his face in the crook of her neck just now, like a domestic wolf dog, Nan Shu felt even more ashamed, and the redness spread to the base of his ears.
Qin Yugu didn't hear his loud apology. After stuffing the sandbag, he held it under his arm and walked to the corner to give Nan Shu a hand in confusion.
"Are you squatting here and thinking about your mistakes? I've done it. You still have time to leave now. Pay attention to safety on the road."
As she spoke, she pointed to the back door that had been reserved in advance and urged Nan Shu to pack up her things quickly and leave.
The sky was also bright, and Nan Shu knew that people from the government office would be here soon to check on the situation, so he didn't stay any longer, packed up all the tools, and walked to the door.
She didn't confirm whether he had left or not, so she lay down on the ground and used her body to press the arm holding the sandbag, trying to make the suspended animation time more appropriate.
He suddenly remembered something and retracted his legs after stepping out of the back door of the house. He rushed to Qin Yugu's side in small steps and whispered softly in her ear -
"I disguised myself as an official to defraud your adoptive parents and got the key evidence. Your brother is safe now. Don't worry about it. After you leave here, remember to go to the inn in the north of the city to find me first!"
Qin Yugu did not answer, but moved his tightly closed eyes slightly, indicating to Nan Shu that he had heard his instructions.
He helped Qin Yugu adjust to a more comfortable position before turning and leaving.
Before going out, Nan Shu took a deep look at the frail girl lying on the cold stone floor and whispered -
"Be careful and be careful in everything."
Immediately, he closed the back door and quickly left the mansion.
On the streets of the county town, Qin Yugu, who had successfully escaped, touched his belly and felt sad for his troubled stomach while walking in the county town.
The government office already deducted a lot from its servants, let alone a female slave like her.
Moreover, in order to appear to be hypothermic while she was pretending to be dead, she hadn't eaten a bite of food since last night. She even applied cold water on her body and wiped it dry several times when the master was scared away and asked people to confirm whether she was alive or dead.
Now, not to mention how hungry she is and how cold she is all over, she is so tormented that her body is going to have a fever!
Her vision was getting blurry, and she could feel that her steps were as scattered as those of a drunk person, but she still used her willpower to move forward.
"There's still...a little..."
There is only about fifty meters away from the door of the inn, but this short fifty meters is so far away in the eyes of today's girls.
My feet felt like they were filled with lead water, every step was extremely heavy, and my head hurt so much it felt like it was about to split!
She has not been sick for many years, at least since becoming a doctor, she has been very strict in her health management and self-discipline, and she has never had a fever.
The last time I had a fever... it was thirteen years ago...
She couldn't remember clearly, but the feeling of reliving it now was obviously not that pleasant!
Finally, when he was still about twenty meters away from the inn, Qin Yugu felt his eyes go dark. After a while, the world was spinning, and he didn't seem to hit the ground.
Two tall men stopped Qin Yugu, and one of them, a soldier who had been appointed by Helianzhong to track Qin Yugu, picked up the girl.
"Huh... I finally caught this girl. She has been hiding in the government office and won't come out. If we act rashly, it won't be easy to explain openly..."
Three hours ago, the dead man knew where he was now, but because she was acting in the government, the disposal of the corpse would involve the owner being in danger, so she had to do it without the owner's permission.
The young soldier holding Qin Yugu also sighed.
"That's right! You said this little girl looks as skinny as a piece of firewood, but why is she so weird? Even dozens of us chasing her can run away right under our noses!"
The old dead man smiled——
"The person who can be searched by the master's name, even a girl, is not an ordinary person. Don't you know this?"
Holding Qin Yugu in his arms, the young dead man believed deeply——
"That's right. I guess the master met her when she was trapped in the cemetery. Maybe he saved her and she also helped him!"
Helian Zhong has always been a person who knows rewards and punishments clearly. If this is true, it would make sense.
It was only a long time later that these dead soldiers realized that it was not Helianzhong who showed mercy at all, but the little girl's frequent strange tricks that saved their most respected master from desperate situations twice.
The two chatted for a while and were about to leave, but were stopped by a young man who rushed out of the inn.
"Stop! Put the person down!"
The purple-haired boy rushed down from the roof of the inn, panting, with a thin layer of sweat on his body. He glared at the two unidentified men who were trying to take the girl away, his red and pink pupils full of hostility.
Nan Shu calculated the time accurately, thinking that Qin Yugu would be here soon, so he waited for her at the door while waiting for her, but no one came for a long time.
He originally thought about going back and telling Huo Yin how to deal with the county magistrate who was about to arrive, but he first went to find the whereabouts of Qin Yugu.
Even if she doesn't come, he must leave now!
His informant informed Qin Jianghuai that he had found the whereabouts of the butcher and his wife and left clues, but he was also imprisoned in the tomb!
If Nan Shu doesn't pass now, Qin Jianghuai, who is already blind, is likely to be silenced!
But when the two of them saw Qin Yugu being held by two men through the window in the hotel room, his face was horribly red, the reason in Nan Shu's mind exploded, and he stopped talking nonsense to Huo Yin.
He rushed directly from the fifth floor of the top floor.
The two dead men were stopped, and the people around them also cast curious glances. Nan Shu obviously looked like he was looking for trouble. The duo and the boy holding the girl immediately became the focus of the crowd.
The dead man screamed in his heart. He didn't expect that there was someone outside to help this girl. Just chatting was a waste of time!
This is a plainclothes mission, but now that so many people are watching, trying to escape by force will cause a commotion!
The older soldier quickly adjusted his expression and grabbed his younger colleague's shoulder. The two looked back kindly, looking honest and honest.
"This little brother, we took our niece home for medical treatment, and you asked us to let her go. What do you mean?"
After saying this, the young man deliberately exposed Qin Yu's frightening bone-red face to passers-by. Her breathing was also rapid, and she was obviously suffering from severe wind and cold.
"Nonsense! She has no relatives here. You are human traffickers! You want to sell her!"
Nan Shu didn't care what the identities of these two people were, but he couldn't let them take her away, so he pointed at the two dead men and started throwing dirty water.
"Do you know how old she is? Where she lives? Who are her parents? Are there any brothers or sisters at home?!"
Nan Shu spoke very quickly, and the questions he asked in succession made both of them stunned.
At present, they only know where this girl just came out... other things...
Dead men cannot investigate blatantly, and here are forces that are enemies of adults. To be able to find a position again after a day of humiliation is already the limit. Where can I have time to care about that!