Exclusive golden branch

Chapter 441
The five altars of bound Jingui wine were quickly brought out.The proprietress of the tavern, who looked like a lady, walked steadily with two or three jars of wine in one hand and handed the golden osmanthus wine over: "Master, take it!"

"The proprietress's strength is pretty good." The little official who took over the wine jar glanced at Wen Ruo, the proprietress of the tavern who had no strength in her hands, smiled and joked, but didn't say any more, but turned around and asked He took the wine jar and left.

The proprietress of the tavern was hospitable and sent them out of the door all the time. When she saw a few military officials hang the wine jars on both sides of the horse's back and turn on the horse, they ran away in a blink of an eye except for a cloud of dust. Su Cai lowered his eyelids, turned around and went back to the tavern.

The Lord Yang that these military officials are talking about should be the Lord Yang who came to Chang'an City from Jiangnan Road last year!

She is just the proprietress of a street tavern in Chang'an, and she doesn't know much about political affairs.But her friendship with Lin Yan and Ji Shizi made her understand the abilities of these two.Since the two culprits he found were also arrested, how could Lord Yang intervene inexplicably?

She didn't know, but she could choose to inform Lin Yan of the matter in advance, so that she could deal with it early.

"Arun!" Zisu, who turned back to the tavern, called Arun, a little maid who was busy in the back kitchen, and said, "Bring the pigeon."

The regular customers who were drinking in the lobby had very sensitive ears, and they couldn't help being surprised when they heard the words: "Could it be that the tavern has new dishes?"

As soon as these words came out, many drinkers laughed, and someone laughed and said: "You know how to eat, you even miss the pigeons, and you don't have a few taels of meat, what is there to eat?"

Zi Su also shook her head with a smile, but said: "There is a small shop in the alleyway of Luoma Market not far ahead, which sells bad quail. I have already agreed with the shop owner, and I will send some to the shop in the future Limai, if you like it, you can try it tomorrow.”

Bad quail!A few regular customers who were drinking turned to this topic: "This dish has been available for a long time, but it has not been sold very well in our Chang'an City, but the eldest son of the nephew of the emperor's nephew in the Duke's Mansion of Anguo last year suddenly became popular. Even Master Ji from Dali Temple liked this one, so it became fashionable."

After all, with less meat and more bones, the dish of bad quail has been a side dish from the beginning, and it is only sold well in places such as taverns.

Listening to the conversation of the drinkers in the hall leading to bad quail, Zisu turned and walked into the back kitchen, through the back kitchen and walked to the backyard.

There were several homing pigeons kept in a cage under the porch in the backyard, she picked one up and carried it into the house.

Since it is an urgent matter, it is natural for Feige to send the letter.

……

……

There were more officers and soldiers visible to the naked eye in Yancheng.

People entering and leaving the city need to inquire about their whereabouts in detail, and the guards will go door to door in the city to record the whereabouts of An Guogong before and after the day when he heard the call for help.

Although I think it is extremely unlikely that the murderer, or those murderers who killed someone and stayed in the city, still have to record the visit, what if someone sees something suspicious?

Jiang Shaoyan was sitting by the window, dragging her cheeks and looking out the window at the guards who were coming and going.

This...was the first time she had been so close but not involved in the investigation of the famous jade-faced judge.

Yancheng is a small city, and there are not many people in the city. Although it takes a lot of effort and manpower to visit one by one, Ji Chongyan does not lack such things as manpower.

Jiang Shaoyan drank the tea, opened her mouth to take a bite of the soufflé that Xiangli handed to her mouth, and continued to look out the window.

This is probably Da Zhou's carpet search!she thought.

The advantage of such a search is that nothing will be missed, and the disadvantage is that...

A civilian who claimed to have "seen a suspicious suspect" was taken out of the shop, and the guards were standing on the street questioning him.

"Where is the suspicious person you mentioned?"

"That man has a short stature and a wicked eye. He passed in front of my shop in broad daylight that day," the excited shop owner said excitedly about the suspicious suspect he had seen, "I just took another look, he He trembled in fright, turned his head and left. In broad daylight, such a sneaky person must have done something bad and killed someone!"

Although the officer asked the clerk with an ugly face to take down what he said, he raised his hand and gave some instructions to the clerk beside him. After a while, the clerk came over with a short, thin and small-eyed man. .

The shop owner became agitated as soon as he saw the man, and wanted to speak several times, but was stopped by the guard raising his hand in time.

When the man came close, the guard asked him with a straight face, "Is this the man you mean?"

The owner of the shop excitedly said, "Yes, that's him!"

The officer heard the words, but he didn't speak immediately. He just casually took out the pen from the clerk's hand and put it in the man's hand. The man trembled as soon as he held the pen, and then there was a "click", The pen fell to the ground.

Looking at the man's trembling hands, the owner of the shop said excitedly, "Look, I knew it was this man. Look at his guilty conscience, his hands are shaking!"

"His name is Stinky Egg. His hands trembled because of his illness. He had a high fever in March, and his family had no money to diagnose and treat him. He was left to fend for himself. In the end, even though he was carried off, his brain was burnt out, and his hands were burnt out. That's right, I can't even hold a book, let alone kill someone." The guard explained, and then asked the owner of the shop, "Did you see any other suspicious suspects?"

The owner of the shop opened his mouth, and the words were blocked in his throat: "...Uh, no more."

The guard nodded, waved him to go back, turned around and went to the next shop, and after a while, a more excited and louder voice "I may have seen the suspect" rang out.

Seeing this, Xiangli, who was busy eating crisp cakes, couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Why... everyone in Yancheng has seen the suspect?"

Really, I have seen it every time I ask, but I don’t know it even after I check it.

"My servant is tired from looking at those servants." Xiangli sighed, her red phoenix eyes widened and she blinked, and she said to Jiang Shaoyan, "Firstly, my servant reads the scriptures where the adults from Dali Temple look dignified when they investigate cases, but When I actually saw it, I realized that it was not imposing at all, it was tiring and troublesome, and I always encountered this kind of 'seen suspect' people making trouble inside."

Of course, these troublemakers didn't feel that they were making trouble, but were serious about witnessing the suspect's testimony.

Jiang Shaoyan shook her head with a smile, and said lightly: "The name of Judge Yumian has been piled up from one case to another, so it's not easy."

Only he himself knows what is behind the glamorous surface.

Speaking of which, Jiang Shaoyan's eyes fell on the "important suspect" who was taken aside by the guards. The "suspicious suspect" that the shop owner in this street saw most likely referred to him, so the guards simply took him , went to ask questions together.

Seeing that her lady's eyes had been on the "important suspect", Xiangli poked her head out and looked at it seriously for a while, then turned her head and asked Jiang Shaoyan: "Miss, you have been looking at the important suspect, but what's wrong with this important suspect?" ?" Xiangli's imagination was fully opened for a moment, and Danfeng's eyes almost turned into big apricot eyes, "Could it be that he is pretending to be sick?"

Malingering?Jiang Shaoyan couldn't help laughing, she shook her head, patted Xiangli's head lightly, telling her not to think wildly, and then said: "He is not pretending to be sick, he is really sick. The frequency of such shaking It’s not pretending. Those dead girls all died from a knife smearing their necks, but he couldn’t even hold a knife, so of course he couldn’t be a murderer.”

So what the guard said was not wrong.

But even though she affirmed what the guard said, the girl still frowned: "But his expression..."

Well, what happened to his complexion?Xiangli opened her eyes and watched seriously, waiting for the girl's next words, but the girl's words stopped at this moment and did not continue.

Jiang Shaoyan's gaze landed on the "important suspect" and paused for a moment, then shook her head, and then withdrew her gaze: To see a doctor, you need to see, hear, and ask, and all four steps are indispensable. Only a "look" can determine what is limited.

Lin Yan is in charge of this case, so there should be no problem.

……

"A total of seven corpses, all female relatives, and all died of cutting their throats." Wu Zuo who came with them pointed to his neck, made a "pull" movement and said: "The left shoulders of the corpses all have or lightly Or heavy pinch marks, the cut throat wound is located on the left side of the neck, I guess the murderer should kill like this..."

Wu Zuo said as he picked up a straw figurine, pinched the straw figurine's left shoulder, took a dagger in his hand, slashed it, and said: "The murderer should be taller than these female relatives. The figure is very tall among girls, equivalent to the height of an ordinary adult man, so if the murderer is a man, he should be taller than an ordinary man. Well, for example, Lin Shaoqing, Ji Shizi, you can do it, A dwarf like me can't do it, little old man."

Lin Yan: "..."

Ji Chongyan: "..."

This metaphor is really empathetic.

After pausing for a while, Wu Zuo said again: "I don't know if it is possible that she is a woman whose stature is much higher than that of ordinary women."

As soon as the clinker said this, Ji Chongyan shook his head and said, "It's unlikely."

Huh?Why is it impossible?Wu Zuo is puzzled.

This time it was not Ji Chongyan who spoke, but Lin Yan. He said: "The cave is muddy, and there are many footprints. The two servants who went in to carry people were the smallest, and their shoes were not much bigger than ordinary girls. I looked at those footprints in the cave. In addition to the footprints of the women's embroidered shoes and the shoe prints of the servants, there is also a shoe print that does not belong to them. This shoe print is much larger than these people. As far as I know, even men's shoes have to reach this The size is also rare, that is, the ready-made shoes in the tailor shop are not so big, and they need to be ordered in advance, so this person is probably a man."

Wu Zuo was taken aback when he heard the words, and did not forget to add: "And he is a man with big feet."

After talking about the feet, I was about to talk about the hands. Wu Zuo scratched and pulled the scarecrow's neck, and explained: "The front part of the cut throat wound is obviously deeper than the back part. The man used his right hand, and all these girls died by his hands alone. .”

"Besides the guard, the girl, and this person, no other shoe prints were found inside the cave entrance, so this man is most likely the one who guarded them, and may have some martial arts skills. There is still unfinished dry food in the cave, obviously He didn't intend to kill people at first, but he didn't know why he had been in custody for so long, and suddenly wanted to kill all these women." Wu Zuo shook his head and said, "There are only so many clues I can find right now. "

Lin Yan nodded, and Ji Chongyan looked at each other, and the two walked out of the room.

Lin Yan asked Ji Chongyan after he got to the back of the Yamen tree: "Chongyan, what do you think?"

"The identities of these women are very important." Ji Chongyan thought for a while, and said, "Did the Wang family in Luoyang notify you? What did the Wang family say?"

"The identities of these women are already being investigated, and there is no clue yet." Lin Yan said, "As for the Wang family... the two elders of the Wang family who heard the news immediately passed out and fell seriously ill after waking up. Upon hearing this, the son is already planning to send someone over to take the girl home for the funeral."

There seems to be nothing wrong with this response...

But Ji Chongyan paused for a moment, and then asked Lin Yan again: "Have they ever said something about Duan Fei? Did the two elders of the Wang family and the young masters of the Wang family bluntly disbelieve them when they reported the letter? Are we going to make a mistake about this?" wait?"

Why are you asking this suddenly?Lin Yan was a little surprised, but shook his head, and said, "No. I heard that everyone in the Wang family responded decently, except for the two elders of the Wang family who fainted. Although they were sad, they didn't mess around anymore... Uh, that's not right!"

Lin Yan, who was talking at first, suddenly changed his face: "Another nonsense... again?"

He remembered!Everyone in the Wang family has always loved this beautiful and self-willed young daughter very much. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Wang family girl is the apple of the eye of the whole family.

When the girl from the Wang family disappeared, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that this matter had nothing to do with Duan Fei, but they ignored it, not afraid of Duan Fei's status as the eldest son, and even found a way to hand over the note.

"The girl from the Wang family has been missing for some time. Do you still remember the news that you came back from Luoyang?" Lin Yan murmured, as if talking to Ji Chongyan, and also seemed to be talking to himself, "Outside Luoyang city There was a young girl who drowned and died. When the identity was not confirmed at the beginning, someone ran to the Wang family to report the news, because the Wang family offered a reward of thousands of taels for finding this jewel in the palm, but when the news reached the Wang family, they were directly beaten out. Angrily, I don't believe it, and the reporter is talking nonsense, how could his girl be alive when she disappeared, how could she be dead?"

"The Wang family really loves this little daughter. Even when the news reached the Wang family, they didn't even refute it, so they just accepted it. Don't you think there is something wrong with this reaction?" Lin Yan said with a solemn expression. ,"unless……"

"Unless the Wang family already knew who had fallen into the hands of the youngest daughter," Ji Chongyan said, "The two elders of the Wang family would faint because they knew that the person who kidnapped someone would really do such a thing."

"If that's the case, we need to check the past of the Wang family, the richest man in Luoyang." Lin Yan said, paused, and frowned, "The Wang family is involved in all walks of life, just like the Fang family. Every business has to take a share. But when I first started my business, I remember that the Wang family seemed to be..."

"Drug dealer." Ji Chongyan opened his mouth, squinted his eyes, and said, "However, there is no such start-up business in the current Wang family industry."

(End of this chapter)