Demon detective

Chapter 63 The Mystery
"The horse is long, the fish is short..." Shen Yu scratched his forehead habitually, and muttered to himself, "Where is the horse's body long? Where is the fish's body short? Is the combination of the two places the correct answer?"

Xu Zhen couldn't help scratching his head, always feeling that there was something wrong with Shen Yu's words.

"Xu Zhen," at this time, Song Zhili came to Xu Zhen and asked, "Why...you guessed it again? Don't we need to send someone to search Racecourse Street?"

"No need, my lord!" Xu Zhen didn't forget to salute, then shook his head and said, "It's definitely not Racecourse Street!"

"Oh?" Song Zhili raised his eyebrows, "Are you so sure?"

"Chang and Chang have different pronunciations," Chen Houlu analyzed at the side, "Besides, Machang Street is so big, isn't it too general?"

"Master Chen is right." Xu Zhen quickly agreed.

In fact, Chen Houlu was only right about one point, and Xu Zhen judged the other point through the monk's micro-expression.

Although the monk was noncommittal at the time, the slightly drooping corners of his eyes and the somewhat satisfied look in his eyes still showed that Xu Zhen's guess was wrong.

"The horse is long, the fish is short..." Song Zhili thought about it, and asked Xu Zhen again, "Then... what do you think it should mean?"

Xu Zhen shook his head again, and answered truthfully: "The humble staff has not guessed it yet, these four words are not like anagrams."

"Oh," Song Zhili shook his head and sighed, "It's really a wave of unrest! I was thinking, if I heard the four-line puzzle from the monk before, can I solve it like Xu Zhen?"

Song Zhili's words may sound incomprehensible at first glance, but it makes sense when you think about it carefully.

After all, Song Zhili is a scholar, so he is naturally very interested in this kind of word games.

It can also be seen from this that Song Zhili is somewhat jealous of Xu Zhen on the basis of being suspicious of Xu Zhen.

Xu Zhen, a young policeman who has never been to school, can easily solve crossword puzzles. He is a little dissatisfied.

At this time, the doctor had already been invited to the yamen, Song Zhili hurriedly arranged for someone to carry County Magistrate Tong to the back room, and let the doctor treat him.

At the same time, Cheng Xiao had already arranged to imprison the monk and returned to the lobby to report.

"Cheng Butou," Song Zhili said to Cheng Xiao, "The identity of this monk is also very important. We must first know who he is, so that this case can be investigated!"

"Yes!" Cheng Xiao nodded, "I'll arrange for someone to paint a portrait of the monk and check his identity."

"We have only one temple in Yanping County," Song Zhili reminded, "Call a monk to come and identify it, see if you recognize it?"

"Yes."

"Also," Chen Houlu added, "since this monk brought Tong county magistrate back to Yanping County, it means that the hatred between them should have happened here. So this monk is very likely to be a local in Yanping County. people."

"Understood, I'll do it now, but..." Cheng Xiao nodded in agreement first, and then asked, "My lords, the riddle that the monk just said... Do we have to check it first?"

When the riddle was mentioned, the two adults looked at Xu Zhen again, but Xu Zhen still shrugged helplessly, saying that he really couldn't guess it.

"It's really not possible," Chen Houlu suggested, "Let's call some scholars from Xuanwu Academy to help us with the research?"

"Hmm..." Song Zhili nodded, "It seems like this is the only way to go!"

"No, no, my lords," Cheng Xiao said hastily, "You seem to have misunderstood me. The monk's riddle is so simple that we already know the answer."

"what!?"

This time, even Xu Zhen was quite surprised, and looked at Cheng Xiao with everyone.

"What?" Cheng Xiao was surprised, "Don't you know?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, especially Song Zhili, who had read a lot of poetry and books, blushed a little.

"Ma Chang is horse intestines? The intestines of intestines," Cheng Xiao explained, "Yu Short is our dialect here, which means fish maw, which can be made into isinglass."

"Ah?" Shen Yu was dumbfounded, "Eat? How could it be food? Isn't that right? Aren't monks vegetarian?"

"So, these are two riddles?" Xu Zhen was quite surprised, and hurriedly asked: "Then... what do these horse intestines and isinglass refer to?"

Cheng Xiao looked smug, thinking that you Xu Zhen also asked me for advice.

"Sanyang..." At this time, Fu Bin behind him said, "Sanyang horse sausage is delicious, and they are the only family in the county who make this."

"Yuduan can be made into fish gelatin," Cheng Xiao said, "There used to be a family called Lu Ji that made fish gelatin, but their family has closed down. We can find out who is still making fish gelatin now?"

"Oh..." Song Zhili nodded slightly, feeling that Cheng Xiao's analysis was more reliable.

"Horse intestines and fish gelatin," Chen Houlu said, stroking his beard. "I've been in Yanping County for so many years, but I didn't know there are these two things. It's really strange."

"You have a chance to try it," Fu Bin said, "I've never eaten fish maw, but the horse intestines are really delicious. I heard that they were first introduced from the Western Regions!"

"Okay," Song Zhili stopped hesitating, and immediately ordered, "If that's the case, then go and investigate! This monk is not kind, so we shouldn't be negligent!"

"Yes." Cheng Xiao took the order.

"Also," Song Zhili warned, "We don't know the monk's purpose yet, so don't torture him until we find out."

"Yes."

"Okay, let's do it!" Song Zhili said again, "Chen Xiancheng and I went to see the Tong County Magistrate."

After saying that, the two county magistrates walked towards the inner hall, but just a few steps later, Song Zhili suddenly remembered something, and asked Cheng Xiao: "By the way, Butou Cheng, you are also an old man in the yamen, do you know this magistrate Tong?" ?"

"I know it, I know it," Cheng Xiao replied hastily, "At that time, Mr. Shen was still there, and Tie Feng and I were both speedsters."

"Oh..." Song Zhili nodded, "That's the best, there must be an old man in the team, right! Let's find out this case as soon as possible, the matter of Qiu Batian is still waiting for us to close the case as soon as possible!"

"Yes!" Cheng Xiao clasped his fists again and agreed.

The two county magistrates then continued to walk deep into the yamen, only to hear Chen Houlu introduce to Song Zhili as he walked: "Master Song, you should call him Tong Changshi. After he left Yanping County, he was transferred to Shang The state made a long history..."

Seeing the two county magistrates leave, Cheng Xiao immediately assembled his team and began to assign tasks to the arresters.

Since Xu Zhen was an important participant, he was assigned to the group that cracked the intestines, but this time the team was led by Cheng Xiao himself.

Everyone didn't care about dinner, and immediately rushed to the horse intestine workshop in the southwest of the county.

According to the information provided by the police, the owner of the horse intestine workshop is Liu Sanyang, who has been operating the horse intestine business in Yanping County for more than 20 years.

Because the production process of horse intestines is cumbersome and the group of people who like to eat horse intestines is relatively fixed, they are the only family in Yanping County.

They don't have a store either, they just have a processing workshop in the alley.

Cheng Xiao obviously bought horse intestines here, and he is familiar with the road, and soon led a group of arresters to rush there.

Once at the door, however, they realized something was wrong.

But the door of the workshop was locked.

"Isn't it?" Fu Bin said, "I remember that Liu Sanyang lived here. How could it be possible to lock the door at this point?"

"Yes," Cheng Xiao said, "Even if Liu Sanyang has something to do, the shop assistants will take care of the business and should not lock the door from the outside."

Therefore, Cheng Xiao hurriedly ordered everyone to prepare to climb over the wall and enter the courtyard.

however……

Cheng Xiao still forgot one thing, they took Hu Niu Shen Yu with them on this trip.

This side was not ready yet, so Shen Yu knocked open the door with his shoulder!
Whoa!

Not only did the lock fall off, but even half of the door fell off.

"I cut..."

Cheng Xiao was so angry that he wanted to scold the street, but after another thought, they came to investigate the case, not to arrest people. Since the door has been opened, let's go in and have a look!

However, before he had time to raise his hand to signal, Shen Yu rushed into the workshop with a whistle stick.

Cheng Xiao had no choice but to follow the others into the workshop.

Boom!

The door of another room was knocked open by Shen Yu, and upon entering the room, all the arresters felt their hearts tighten.

But seeing two people tied up in the room, they should be workshop guys by their attire.

"Ohh Ohh ohh……"

Seeing someone coming in, they hurriedly screamed, and one of them kept gesturing to the inner room with his eyes.

Seeing this, Cheng Xiao immediately pushed open the door of the inner room, and before entering, he suddenly smelled a pungent smell of blood...

……

(End of this chapter)