Attack Jade (攻玉) - Chapter 81

[Chapter 52: Adding a Piece of Ada’s Psychological Life… (1)]

After the early meal, Teng Yuyi was busy observing around, seeing that there were runes buried inside and outside the wall, and his heart was like eating a reassuring pill, with Lin Chengyou’s formation protection, there was no need to worry about ghosts and monsters interfering with each other at night.

I don’t know if this array of fa can resist the evil magic of that strange person, if it can, in the past life, she and Duan Fu would not have died so tragically.

As he was walking around, Cheng Bo came over and said, “The craftsmen who fill the pond have come, and the ladies will first return to the pond for the last month.” Du Tinglan was

reading in the pavilion over there, and he was surprised and inexplicable: “Fill the pond? There is

only one pond in the garden, and there are many willows planted by the pool, and there is a charming scenery in the spring, so it is good to fill in what to do.

“Don’t you like this pond very much, every time you go back to Chang’an when you were young, you would sit by the pond and fish, what a pity to fill it.”

Teng Yuyi coughed, the taste of fishing when she was young she had long forgotten, the despair of struggling to die in the ice water was unforgettable, she had to put an end to all hidden dangers, the first object of transformation was this pond, if it were not for the delay of a few days of work to avoid the corpse evil, she would have made people move.

“As soon as I saw the water in the pond, I had a headache, and I had long wanted to change it to Keju Field.” Suddenly finding that Cheng Bo was making eyes at himself, Teng Yuyi knew that Cheng Bo had something important to say, so he had to pull Du Tinglan up, “Sister, the craftsmen are coming in, let’s go back to the inner courtyard to talk.” The

sisters returned to Tan last month, Du Tinglan returned to the room to choose an embroidery for Gui Mi, and Teng Yuyi changed into men’s clothes to practice his sword in the court.

Huo Qiu was sent to follow Du Shaotang, Duan Fu officially took over the task of teaching Teng Yuyi martial arts, just taught a few tricks Cheng Bo came, Teng Yuyi remembered the matter that Cheng Bo inquired about, and busily invited Cheng Bo to his small study: “Is there any movement in Xishi?” Cheng Bo nodded, “The

pig iron shop that Peng Yugui said is open, and the pippi named Zhuang Mu is also in the shop.” Teng Yuyi’s

heart fluttered, and Peng Yugui said before he died that the silver wire was given to him by Zhuang Mu, as long as he stared at this Zhuang Mu, He Shuo could not follow the vine to find out the bottom of the man in black.

In her previous life, she had died tragically at the hands of this man, and in this life she must preemptively attack.

She paced a few steps with her hands in her hands: “Can Zhuang Mu’s bottom details be clearly checked?” He’s in the same gang with the pig iron shop? Cheng Bo said, “The

name of the lord of the pig iron shop is Yumi Gui?” Azan, a Sogdian Hu, was ill a month ago, and only returned from illness last night, the Hu people with the surname ‘Yumigui’ have been doing business in Chang’an since thirty years ago, and Azan’s pig iron industry has been open for nearly ten years.

“As for Zhuang Mu, he came to Chang’an only the year before, claiming to be a Hui person, but he spoke Chinese very well, he had a good hand in iron smelting, so he did not worry about making a living, he originally worked in a pig iron shop in Dongshi, because the boss was too old to close the shop, he came to Xishi to make a living, just at that time Yumigui lacked manpower, Zhuang Mu has been working in ‘Yumigui’ since then. This man has no wife and no children, grumpy, usually loves to drink and gamble money, every time he loses, he can’t help but fight with people, and there are many people in the workshop who recognize him, but they have no deep friendships.

Teng Yuyi asked, “Where was Zhuang Mu in the month that Yumigui closed his doors?”

“Zhuang Mu usually lives in the shop, but the old slave once ordered someone to quietly climb over the wall to go in and look at it, and Zhuang Mu did not return to the pig iron line this month when the door was closed, and the few blocked workshops and martial arts workshops he often went to were also found, and he did not see his trace.” There are many people in the workshop, and it is difficult to ensure that the grass will not scare the snake, so the old slave has to give up first, but the old slave is sure that this time Zhuang Mu has not appeared in the east and west cities. Teng Yuyi

wondered, “A month is not short, there must always be a shelter.” Does this person have relatives in Chang’an?

Cheng Bo shook his head.

Teng Yuyi: “Without relatives, where can he hide as a bastard of the city, why can’t even Cheng Bo find out his whereabouts, he should not have left Chang’an a while ago.” “This

old slave is waiting to be scrutinized. If Zhuang Mu stayed in Chang’an, whether he lived in an inn or went to Huajie Liu Lane to seek pleasure, it would be a big expense, and he would not be able to come up with this money as a pig iron company. Fortunately, after he appeared this morning, the old slave ordered people to inquire about Zhuang Mu’s whereabouts along the way, and after checking all the way down, he realized that Zhuang Mu seemed to have come out of Chun’an Lane in ChongzhengFang this morning.

“Chun’an Lane in Chongzhengfang?” Where is that?

“A place where nobles live, quiet in the middle of the world, the price of the house is expensive, there are many officials in Beijing who live in the mansion, the residents are all figures with heads and faces, the old slave is not sure whether Zhuang Mu is passing there, or whether he has lived in Chun’an Lane in january before, if Zhuang Mu borrowed this place, who took Zhuang Mu in?” By the way, I heard that last night there were dead people in Chun’an Lane, and when the old slave sent people over, he just happened to catch up with the Dali Temple’s servants to investigate the case.

“Dead people?” Teng Yuyi’s face became solemn, “Murder? Otherwise, why would it alarm dali temple…”

“The people sent by the old slave did not ask in detail, it may not be related to Zhuang Mu, but the old slave always felt that it was a bit clever.”

Teng Yuyi sighed: “Peng Yugui’s silver wire is obtained from Zhuang Mu’s hand, it is expected that Zhuang Mu’s skills will not be bad, killing a person is almost as easy as a palm for him, first of all, don’t say this, this person showed his face is easy to say, he is in the light and in the dark, I will first go to see what he looks like, Cheng Bo, you first help me prepare the car and horse.” She tried

to recall in her mind the size of the gang of murderers, Zhuang Mu could provide the deadly weapon of silver wire, perhaps one of the murderers that night, as long as she saw this person, she might be able to think of some important clues.

“This man is dangerous, and the old slave arranges things in the house and accompanies the mother to set off.”

“You are the steward of the Teng Mansion, and it is inevitable that you will attract attention when you go out.” Teng Yuyi said, “Let Duan Fu accompany me, bring a few more good guards, by the way, can Grandpa come back today, I have something important to say to him.” Cheng Bo was still not assured: “The

front is anxiously waiting for military food, the old man was still personally carrying grain at the Weihe River ferry yesterday, and today he does not know if he can come back, even if he comes back, it is estimated that it is late at night.”

“No matter how late it is, I’ll wait for Grandpa.” In the past few days, she remembered a lot of things in her past life, and she had to quickly tell Grandpa about Peng Zhen’s possible mutiny in conjunction with neighboring clan towns.

Before leaving, Teng Yuyi specially walked to the stables to lead her little red horse, and the little red horse ran around in the stable, more energetic than yesterday, but she did not care much about people, and only took one eye to glance at Teng Yuyi. Without waiting for Teng Yuyi to come and get close to it, it ran away.

“Don’t run.” Teng Yuyi idly waved at it, “Accompany me to the West Market.” The

little red horse paced slowly in the stables and refused to pay attention to Teng Yuyi.

“Oh, wasn’t you intimate with me yesterday?” Whether it is unpleasant to eat or not to live, you come out and talk to me, I don’t believe that I am not as good as Lin Chengyou’s stables here. He

said and instructed the steward in charge of the horse: “The hour is not early, take it out, I have to send it.” ”

Absolutely not.” The steward said busily, “This treasure colt is fierce, and he likes to cheat, and the lady is not familiar with it, so beware of being swept down by it.”

Teng Yuyi waved his hand: “My riding skills are very good, and I can’t fall badly.” The

steward refused to live or die, and the little red horse only cared about wandering back and forth.

Teng Yuyi looked down at himself and suddenly smiled: “Shouldn’t you see me change into men’s clothes and not recognize me?”
In order to make it easier for
her to go out, she not only changed into men’s clothes, but also removed her usual sachets and skewers.

The little red horse let out a hiss, simply turned around, and pointed his ass at Teng Yuyi.

Teng Yuyi touched the beard on his mouth, and it was too late to change back into women’s clothes, it seemed that it was nowTian couldn’t get close to riding her little red horse, so he had to let the steward change another short jujube red horse for her, and rode out of the house, taking Duan Fu and his party with him, and went to the West Market.

Arriving at the gate of the West Market, just in time for the opening of the gate, Teng Yuyi dismissed the rest of the guards in advance, so that they deliberately lagged behind him a few steps, and he took Duan Fu and led his horse to the city.

Yumigui Pig Iron Company is located in the most lively row of shops in The West Market, which display all kinds of weapons of high-grade snow and light, swords, knives, hammers… All these are readily available, it is said that the use of the finest cold iron, the price is several times higher than the pig iron line next to it, Rao is so, there are still a lot of horses parked in front of the store, and the young Lang Jun is endless, admiring to come to choose weapons.

Teng Yuyi turned around nearby, stepped into a cloth shop opened by a Hu family on the opposite side, went up to the second floor and casually found a window seat to sit down, and instructed the store to bring the softest material in the store.

Between the waiting, her gaze kept swirling around on the opposite side, and she overheard someone shouting in a rough voice: “Zhuang Mu.”

Teng Yuyi fixed his eyes on it, only to see an unusually short and thin black-skinned man coming out of it: “What’ the matter?” ***

In

the main hall of Dali Temple, many officials and servants gathered, covering their sleeves and covering their noses.

There were two corpses placed side by side on the ground, it looked like the couple sent from the same state capital, it should have been dead for a while, and the thick corpse cloth could not hide the pungent smell of corpses.

Next to the corpse, an official from out of town was busy stating the case: “The man’s name is Wang Zangbao, who is twenty-five this year, and the woman’s is Bai’s, and this year’s twenty-twenty have two.” Both of them are people from the same state, relying on selling cooked food for a living (Note 1), Wang Zangbao’s craft of making cooked food is ancestral, the business in the shop was originally very good, but unfortunately last year, he was infected with the vice of cockfighting, and successively gambled and lost a lot of money, and at the beginning of the year, he offended several scoundrels because of cockfighting, which attracted a lot of right and wrong, Wang Zangbao was overwhelmed, and wanted to take the opportunity to quit the problem of cockfighting and gambling money, simply sold the shop, took his wife to Chang’an to make a living, and even knew that he was killed on the road. Speaking of evil, Bai Shi is still five months pregnant——”

As he was speaking, someone turned his head to look at Lin Chengyou and Yan Sizhi and said busily: “Yan Sizhi and Lin Zhishi.” This is Liu Fa Cao of the same state capital.

Liu Fa Cao had already heard of Lin Chengyou’s name, and took the initiative to greet him: “Lin Comment, Yan Sizhi, the lower official Liu Mou, long look up to the big name.”

“Liu Fa Cao has worked hard all the way.” Lin Chengyou arched his hand, and quickly turned his head to look at the corpse on the ground, the corpse was haunted by a scorching breath, and the two mouths had been turning into powerful ghosts for a while.

He took a few steps to the side of the corpse, crouched down and lifted the corpse cloth, Rao held his breath in advance, still smoked by the corpse smell and turned his head.

Someone in the hall vomited, and several servants covered their noses and handed their veils to Lin Chengyou.

Lin Chengyou waved his hand and said no, turned his face again to look closely, this was the corpse of a young man, his face was already showing signs of decay, and there was a large wound in his chest, as if it had been pierced by a sharp weapon.

“Where were they murdered?” Lin Chengyou asked.

Liu Facao hurriedly replied: “Died in an inn on the road from Tongzhou to Chang’an, and the inn was called Ju’an Inn.”

However, in line with what Chen Erniang said in the story, Lin Chengyou examined the corpse: “What is the cause of Wang Zangbao’s death?” “Heart

beats. The murder weapon should be a pig-killing knife, pierced through the chest, and killed with one knife. In addition, There were no more wounds on Wang Zangbao’s body.

Lin Chengyou inspected Wang Zangbao’s body and lifted the white cloth on the other side.

It was a young woman with a huge, umbel-shaped wound on her abdomen.

Lin Chengyou’s gaze was fixed on the edge of the wound, and yes, Bai Shi was like the young woman named Li Niang in the morgue, the wound was torn open by his bare hands.

This is worth looking for, when the murderer killed the king’s treasure, the murderer obviously had a knife, why did he use his hands when taking the fetus.

Suppose these two cases were committed by the same murderer —

“Liu Facao, on what day were the Wangs and his wife killed?”

“The night of the fifth day of March.”

“It’s been twenty days.” Tongzhou is not far from Chang’an, and it only takes five or six days to quickly ride, and the murderer can completely kill people in Tongzhou and then rush to Chang’an to commit murder.

Lin Chengyou pointed to Bai’s abdomen: “I heard that after the incident, you searched the neighborhood for several days, but you found the fetus in Bai’s abdomen?”

Liu Facao shook his head with a white face: “The subordinate officer led people to search every hill and interrogated every passing vehicle, not to mention finding the remains of the fetus, not even the murder weapon was found, according to the subordinate official, the murderer should have escaped from tongzhou overnight.” The

officials showed a look of approval, but they also had some doubts, Liu Facao was diligent in handling the case, and the cracking of the case was just around the corner, even so why did he submit this case to the Dali Temple?

If it is detected by itself, in the next year, Liu Fa Cao’s evaluation will definitely be able to evaluate a “superior”.

Liu Facao smiled bitterly, “Truth be told, the subordinate officials once suspected that Wang Zangbao’s enemies had done it, and once they were investigated, Hou Er, who was the leader, had indeed hired a car to leave Tongzhou, and when the subordinate officials got the evidence, they arrested Hou Er and his accomplices together in the county court, and after a few days of interrogation, although Hou Er and the others admitted that they wanted to teach Wang Zangbao a lesson, they did not admit to killing people, and it was at this time that their colleagues found a pig-killing knife in Hou Er’s home, and the motive was there.” The murder weapon was also there, the subordinate officials immediately took Hou Er into custody, who knew that night the yamen began to haunt, Hou Er was actually frightened alive, Hou Er’s madness, we thought that the Wang couple should also be stopped, who knew that the noise was getting more and more fierce, the people in the yamen could see the female ghost looking for things everywhere all night, and the assassin shi said that this case was probably another mystery, so that the subordinate officials quickly submitted it to the Dali Temple. Looking

for something? Like Last Night’s Li Niang, looking around for your lost fetus? Lin Chengyou thought about it and asked: “The murderer sneaked into the room to kill two people in a row, no matter how cautious he was, he would make some noise, what noise could be heard in the neighboring room of the inn that night?”

“Yes.” Liu Facao said, “On the night that Wang Zangbao and his wife were killed, there were two foreign businessmen living in the neighboring room, and when they slept until midnight, they were suddenly awakened by a burst of baby cries, and the two felt confused, before going to sleep, they didn’t hear a baby next door, how they suddenly cried, remembered to come and see, suddenly felt that the room was strangely cold, and then smelled a strange smell, and then they didn’t know anything, and the next morning they got up, they knew that the couple in the neighboring room died in the room last night.” After examination, the time when the Tian couple was killed was about the moment when the merchant heard the baby crying.

Lin Chengyou was silent, before it was only a story made up by a child, but now that he knew that there was a real thing, it was impossible for him not to re-examine these two strange cases.

In the past, he had also seen many demons who took the fetus and ate it in the qingyun temple texts, and the purpose of doing so was nothing more than to quickly enhance the demon’s power, and as soon as the yuan baby was taken out, it entered the belly of the demon, how could it make a cry.

Moreover, how can a fetus that is only five months old cry in his throat?

If the evil demon himself makes a baby-like cry, it is not impossible, but it does not make sense, and when it hurts people, it makes strange cries, presumably it is not afraid to attract people, then why should it faint the two merchants next door and escape from the same state capital overnight.

Judging from this series of techniques, it is clear that it is not the work of a demon, but the work of a certain murderer, because he does not want to be found by the government, so he has gone to great lengths.

Lin Chengyou thought about getting up, if it was really done by peopleThe murderer is wondering what it is for.

It was still early, the higher-level officials of the Dali Temple had not yet appeared, and most of the officials in the hall were young officials below the level of Si Zhi, and at the moment when Lin Chengyou inquired about the case, none of the young officials went through the handover formalities.

This case involves Chang’an and the two prefectures, really to investigate and deal with, it is indispensable to toss back and forth, this Liu Fa Cao of the same prefecture handled the case so quickly and has no clue, moving to Chang’an will only be more tricky, doomed to be a thankless errand, everyone is obviously not willing to take the job.

Lin Chengyou looked around, except for Yan Ji who was carefully inspecting the corpse, the other bosses were far away.

He smiled, don’t make it so obvious.

Glancing at the men, he said to Liu Facao, “Well, I am direct with YanJi in this case.”

Yan Ji also got up and didn’t want to think about it: “Please ask Liu Facao and Yan to hand over the case.” Several

young officials had a hint of optimism in their eyes, and Lin Chengyou just happened to handle a few cases, and he thought that he was invincible. This boy’s newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, even if it is not, Yan Wanchun also followed the blind hustle and bustle, the cases in his hands are piled up into a mountain, even this kind of mess dares to take over, people called “Yan Fool”, this is really not wrong.

Lin Chengyou smiled: “Before the official handover, I still have a number of questions to confirm with Liu Facao, these details may not be recorded in the case file, and Liu Facao personally helps to recall, annoyed Liu Facao in the backyard for a short rest, I first go to Yingchun Lane in ChonghuaFang.”

“Yingchun Lane in Chonghuafang—” Yan Ji looked puzzled, “Isn’t that the residence of Li Niang, who was killed last night?” “Yes

, Li Niang’s death is exactly the same as Bai’s, I suspect it was the same person, so I have to quickly confirm one thing, if Li Niang was killed nearby and also heard the crying of the baby, these two cases can basically be combined, then it is likely that someone will be killed next.” 」

As soon as these words came out, not only did Yan Ji change color, but Liu Fa Cao was also astonished.

Those officials put on a posture of not caring about themselves, yun light wind lightly went inside, Lin Chengyou had already gone outside, and suddenly fell back: “Hey, Wang Sizhi, Chen Sizhi, please stay, you see, there are too many trivial cases in the hands of the lower officials, and now that they have accepted this case, they really can’t spare their hands, in order not to delay the handling of the case, those miscellaneous cases in the hands of the lower officials have to be entrusted to the two seniors.”

Wang Sizhi and Chen Sizhi didn’t want to push it away, and they swallowed the words again with the smiling eyes of Shanglin Chengyou.

Lin Chengyou’s ability to argue is no obstacle, when it comes to the ability to speak of perversion, the people of the whole Dali Temple are not better than him, and what can Lin Chengyou do without reason, for the sake of future career, how dare they openly argue with him.

Wang Sizhi was more flexible than Chen Sizhi’s brain, and he was busy responding: “Lin Commented on what he said, turn the case files around.”

Lin Chengyou smiled and said, “Then there are two seniors.” However

, when the cases reached the hands of Wang Sizhi and Chen Sizhi, only one case was Lin Chengyou’s case, and the rest were all Yan Wanchun’s cases, adding up to a dozen or so cases.

The two people are used to bullying Yan Wanchun on weekdays, knowing that this person has always been honest, will never take the initiative to throw his case to others, do not have to think, this must be Lin Chengyou’s idea, only regret that the morning is too obvious, even dare to say more, had to take it.

***

When Lin Chengyou rushed to Chun’an Lane, Gong Fa cao of Chang’an County was directing the servants to block Li Niang’s house, and when he heard that Lin Chengyou was coming, Gong Fa Cao rushed out: “How did Lin Comment come?”

Lin Chengyou arched his hand at Gong Fa Cao: “I and Yan Ji are directly involved in this case.” After

getting off the horse and looking around, Shu Liniang’s house was located at the end of the alley, which was particularly quiet and wide, and Lin Chengyou stepped up the steps: “In addition to Li Niang, who else lives in the house?” “There

are only six servants, except for Li Niang herself, two maids, an old servant and two cooks.”

“Li Niang lives here alone?” What about her husband?

Gong Fa Cao Ping stepped back from his head and lowered his voice and said, “She is another housewife raised by Zheng Shu (Note 2).

Lin Chengyou looked at Gong Fa Cao.

Gong Fa Cao was praised, and he did not believe it originally, because Zheng Shuzhao was notoriously afraid of the inside, who knew that his old man had raised a few housewives silently.

“Li Niang’s surname is Shu, the age of twenty, is a niece of a Shu surname Changshi in Jingzhao Province, I heard that quite a bit of literature and ink, the appearance is also very charming, the previous year married, the result is less than a year the husband died, because she has not yet conceived children, the in-laws do not see the face, Shu Li niang had to come to Chang’an to run relatives, she lived in Shu Changshi’s house, and then somehow, was hit by Zheng Shu, since then Zheng Shu has placed Shu Li Niang here, From time to time, he would come to see her, and everyone in the alley knew about it, only hiding it from Zheng Shujie’s wife. After Zheng Shuzhao got the news last night, he almost fell off his horse because he was too shocked, and he did not show his face, and he rushed to send the most useful servants around him to inquire about this matter, and also told Chang’an County Ya to arrest the real murderer as soon as possible.

Lin Chengyou secretly thought that it was no wonder that Chang’an County had transferred the case to Dali Temple that night, thinking that he was afraid of delaying the pursuit of the murderer.

“How many months has Lady Shuli been pregnant?”

“Say it’s just turned three months.”

Lin Chengyou was stunned that Shu Liniang’s child was even younger than Bai’s month.

“Zheng Shu shot here last night?” Did he know that Shu Liniang was pregnant?

Gong Facao: “According to Zheng Shu’s entourage, Zheng Shufei already knew that Shu Liniang was pregnant, so he also sent an extra kitchen lady to take care of Shu Liniang, but recently hundreds of officials went to Beijing to report for duty, and Zheng Shuzhao was busy with official duties and had not come to Chun’an Lane for more than ten days.”

Lin Chengyou went straight to the inner courtyard: “Who was the first to find Shu Liniang’s corpse?” “It’s

Shu Liniang’s two handmaidens.” After Shu Liniang had dinner last night, she said that she was tired and had rested early, the people in the house had finished their work, slept earlier than usual, slept until midnight, the maids were suddenly awakened by freezing, it was the end of the hour, usually this time Li Niang would definitely call them to send tea, Li Niang did not move, the second maid was not at ease, into the inner room to see Li Niang, only to find that she had already died in bed.

Lin Chengyou thought about it, and Li Niang’s ghost broke into the Teng Mansion when Mo Waszi, that is to say, Li Niang immediately turned into a powerful ghost after her death.

No amount of resentment will be so, unless… Someone lit up. The strangest thing is that Li Niang did not go to find the murderer, but went directly to the Teng Mansion.

Lin Chengyou thought about it and went to the inner courtyard, and when he was confronted by a thick bloody gas, he entered the inner chamber and bypassed the screen, the situation on the bed was shocking, and he was stained with blood, as if he had been soaked in a bucket of blood.

The ground was also covered with large patches of blood, interspersed with messy footprints.

“Have you checked these footprints?” Have outsiders been found?

“After checking, all the maids and cooks were left behind, and although the old man who guarded the door said that the news had arrived, he did not dare to enter the inner room, and for the sake of prudence, he asked several underlings to take off their shoes on the spot and compare.”

Lin Chengyou carefully examined the blood stains in the room,He went to the window and outside the court to explore, and turned several times inside and out, not even the dust in the corner, but the murderer did not leave a trace.

“Have you looked around?” Have you found a fetus in Shu Li’s womb?

Gong Facao slowly shook his head.

Lin Chengyou was silent, very good, Shu Liniang was the same as Bai in the same state, and the fetus in the abdomen disappeared.

“Call all the people in the house and I’ll interrogate them one by one.”

As a result, when I asked, I learned that all five of the underlings had slept to death last night, and none of them had heard the movement at the time of the crime.

Fortunately, after Repeated Questioning by Lin Chengyou, people remembered that they had smelled a strange fragrance before going to bed.

This is consistent with what happened to the two businessmen at the time of the Tongzhou case, lin Chengyou asked the people to describe the aroma, but the next people could not say it. Lin Chengyou also asked Shu Liniang whether she could have a vendetta with people in the past, whether she could mess with Zheng Shujie in recent days, and so on, and asked dozens of questions in a row before getting up and going to the adjacent house to inquire.

Neighbors obviously heard about last night’s tragedy, and all the people in the morning were closed and closed, and there was a large Chun’an Lane, and almost no one was walking around.

Knocking on the door of the house next door, the old slave was already frightened, and before Gong Fa Cao could ask, he was eager to shake his head into a rattle: “The old slave doesn’t know anything.”

Lin Chengyou put his hand on the door and smiled, “Hey, don’t rush to close the door, we haven’t finished talking yet.” Seeing

that it was a handsome young man wearing a low-level green robe and official uniform, he didn’t care much, and only held the door deadly: “The old man and his wife in the house are not at home, and I don’t know what the two officials want to ask.”

Lin Chengyou couldn’t say anything about pushing the door open and drove straight in: “I came to inquire about last night’s events.” After

this inquiry, it took Lin Chengyou a lot of work, and finally learned from a guy in the kitchen that when he got up last night, he heard the baby’s cry.

“Are you sure it’s coming out of the hair on the wall?” Lin Chengyou asked.

The guy’s face was pale: “Yes, the little one thought he heard wrong, because there was no little prince and little lady in the house, and he listened to it for a while in front of the toilet, only to realize that the cry came from the house next door.” At that time, the little one thought, could it be that the lady who lived alone had a child? It was cold at night, and the little one stood for a while and shivered, and didn’t think much about it, and ran back to his room to sleep. “In

addition to the baby’s crying, can you hear the noise next to you?” Such as a cry for help, or a stranger’s voice? The guy’s

legs were straight and weak: “We have few cars and horses in Chun’an Lane, the day is not very noisy, it is more silent at night, if there is any strange noise, the small one should be able to hear it immediately, but at that time only the baby’s crying was heard.” Lin Chengyou stared at the

high wall between the two houses: “This place is quiet in the middle of the noise, if there are living people coming here, it should immediately attract your attention, what kind of living people have you seen in the past few days?” The

guy shook his head blankly, but one of the coachmen said, “Yes.” The little man remembered, yesterday evening there was a short black man walking around the alley, the little man just drove by, felt that this person was raw, he looked at it a few more times, the man saw me, flashed and walked towards another intersection. There are only eight mansions in Chun’an Lane, and we are all familiar with each other, and we have never seen the man before.

Lin Chengyou: “What does that man look like?” “He is

not tall, about mo only to the shoulders of the prince, born black and thin, with a big pimple on the right cheek.”

Gong Fa Cao frowned when he heard it, there were thousands of people in Chang’an City, just listening to this description, how to find the whereabouts of that person.

Lin Chengyou was patient: “If you think about it again, is there anything special about that person’s body and hands?” What kind of clothes are you wearing? The

coachman paused: “It seems to be dressed in a short brown, nothing special, but this man’s hands are red and big, and there are many scars on the back of his hands and arms.”

Lin Chengyou stared at the coachman tightly: “What shape of scar?” “I

didn’t see it clearly, I only knew that it was horizontal and vertical, and even the joints were deformed, a little… It’s a bit like a burn, otherwise the villain wouldn’t pay much attention.

Gong Fa Cao secretly thought, what kind of person’s hands and arms will leave so many scars?

But he heard Lin Chengyou pondering, “Blacksmith? Or a bricklayer?

Gong Fa Cao was stunned.

Lin Chengyou took a pen and paper, drew a portrait according to the description of the coachman, and asked the coachman to repeatedly confirm the location of the scar, and then put the portrait into his arms.

“Where is Lin Planning to Go?” Gong Fa Cao followed Lin Chengyou out of the house.

Lin Chengyou turned on his horse: “First ask here, I will go to the west and east markets of the pig iron line, and I will bother Gong Fa Cao to hand over the oral records of the people under the two houses to Yan Jizhi of Dali Temple.” ”

No.”

Lin Chengyou drove his horse straight to Xishi, thinking in his mind, he had not yet found out whether Hu Ji was really killed by Lu Zhao’an, and there was such a big case, the case was so strange, it didn’t make sense to say that there was no evil at all.

Although Kuan Nu was capable, he didn’t understand the Secret Art of Minglu, if the Absolute Saint and renunciation of wisdom came back, it would be good to hand over Hu Ji’s real strange illness to the two stinky boys for careful investigation, and they could also take the opportunity to train them once.

He calculated in his heart that the Taoist grand gathering in the □□ Palace had ended a few days before, and the two boys should come back today at the latest.

Coincidentally, just after arriving at the gate of the West Market, there was a calf cart and Lin Chengyou’s horse passing by, the spring breeze was blowing, and the child’s tender voice drifted out of the car, which was very familiar in the ears.

“I bet this brother won’t like it.”

A smile appeared in Lin Chengyou’s eyes, and with a shake of the reins, the horse blocked the way of the calf car.

Coachman Amon was overjoyed: “Shizi.” The

curtain lifted, and two round heads popped out of the car: “Brother Master! It was

absolutely holy and abandoned, and the two were very happy, scrambling to jump out of the car.

Lin Chengyou got off the horse with a smile: “When did you come back?” The

Absolute Saint said happily, “I came back last night, and I was afraid of disturbing my brother’s rest, so I didn’t go to the Chengwang Mansion to report.” In the morning, I went to Dali Temple to find my brother, and Yan Ji said that my brother had gone out to handle the case, and I had nothing to do with Ren Zhi, so I went to xishi to walk around. How could the Master and Brother be here?

Lin Chengyou took turns to touch the heads of his disciples: “I should ask this question, don’t you hurry up and record the □□ Palace’s observations, what are you going to do here?”

Absolute Saint hey hey smirk, Abandon zhi quietly hid the two fat hands behind him: “Master brother rest assured, we will remember on the way back, go back to the master brother to see.” In

a few days, the master and brother will have a birthday, they have saved money for a long time, and in the morning they took it out, planning to go to the West Market to buy a birthday gift for the master brother.The gift has not been picked yet, how can I let the master brother know in advance.

Lin Chengyou only did not see the two squeezing their eyebrows and making eyes, leading the horse to lead the two to the side: “Did you eat too early?” “You’ve

used it, brother, what about you?”

Lin Chengyou raised his eyebrows, accidentally ate too much in Teng Mansion in the morning, and still panicked.

“It’s just right that you came back, there have been a few tricks in Chang’an City recently, and Kuan Nu and Yan Ji zhi don’t understand Taoism, and there is another matter for you to do.”

Absolute Saint and Renunciation: “Brother Master, please speak.”

Lin Chengyou briefly told Hu Jizhen how he suddenly lost his soul, how he suspected that Lu Zhao’an was related to this matter, and how two similar strange cases had occurred in Tongzhou and Chang’an.

“Originally, Master Brother wanted you to help investigate Hu Ji’s real affairs, but it just so happened that you also came to Xishi, so it was better to help Master Brother recognize someone first.”

He said, taking out the portrait from his arms: “This person should know some magic, you are more than my colleagues, there are more than some strain methods, there are too many pig iron lines in the two cities of Chang’an, the West Market will be handed over to you, the master brother went to the East City to inquire, if you see this man on the painting, immediately let Ah Meng go to the East City to send a message to the brother, remember not to make the other party suspicious, because he is likely to be the murderer of the two murders.” Ren

Zhi and Absolute Saint saw the appearance of the person in the painting and nodded seriously.

Lin Chengyou took the portrait back into his arms: “After this matter, you will go and stalk Lu Zhaoan.” Absolute

Saint scratched his head, “Brother Master, why did Shu Liniang’s powerful ghost go to Teng Mansion?”
Of course
, they didn’t believe that Teng Yuyi would be involved in the murder, but how could Li Ghost come to the door for no reason.

Lin Chengyou was also thinking about this issue in the morning, and last night Teng Yuyi said it with a straight face, saying only that all this was probably Lu Zhaoan’s conspiracy, and the purpose was to murder Du Tinglan.

But the Tongzhou case occurred on the fifth day of the first month of March, chang’an only finished the banquet on the third day of March, Lu Zhaoan even if he inserted his wings, he could not rush to Tongzhou to kill people in two days, assuming that the tongzhou case had nothing to do with Lu Zhaoan, last night’s caesarean section may not have been done by him, so how could he first lure Shu Liniang’s ghost to Tengfu?

Unless Lu Zhaoan has otherwise complicit in the conspiracy.

But what did he want, was it because he was afraid that Du Tinglan would tell the fact that the two had once fallen in love, and it was worth such a big fuss?

Intuition told Lin Chengyou that Shu Liniang was most likely going to Teng Yuyi, which made him even more confused, who Teng Yuyi had provoked, and why he had repeatedly encountered such unfortunate things.

Suddenly he thought of Ying Lingshi in his arms, in the morning he only told Teng Yuyi not to leave the house at night, in case she ran out during the day and encountered evil spirits, wouldn’t he be noisy again.

Since the Absolute Saint and the Renunciation of Wisdom have returned, they should give them this stone, but the hands are all stretched out to the front and stop again.

As soon as Absolute Saint and Ren Zhi returned, he sent them to spy on Lu Zhao’an, and then let them take care of Teng Yuyi’s side, it was too much tossing, but let him go for the time being.

“What the hell is going on, we’ll know when we find out these cases.” Lin Chengyou took out a few taels of money from his sleeve and gave them to the two, “Buy some food outside at noon, remember to be cautious.” Saying

that, he got on his horse and went in the direction of Dongshi.

The Absolute Saint and the Renunciation Wisdom rationalized the Daoist robe and entered the West Market with the crowd, and although the portrait of the master brother was only a few strokes, it showed the appearance and characteristics of the man one by one.

Stop and go all the way, as long as they see the pig iron line, the two will use the excuse of casting the Taoist sword to go around the store twice.

Successively checked several pig iron shops, never saw the person on the painting, walking hungry, the two went to the beard cake shop to buy cakes to fill their hunger.

Not long after coming out of the shop, I passed by a pig iron shop called “Yumigui”. Absolute holiness and forsaken wisdom stop and watch

[End of This Chapter]