Strange Events of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 19 Slaughterhouse

Xiaolan was still lost in thought in the carriage, slowly thinking about what her young master said just now, and muttered to herself: I don't know how my young master's way of a gentleman compares with her own way of clear light swordsmanship?

Ling Changfeng saw Xiaolan's eyes getting more and more excited, and suddenly felt the cool wind on his back.Ling Changfeng quickly patted her awake.He said softly, "What are you still thinking about? Look at your bright eyes. Get out of the car, the slaughterhouse is here!"

When Xiaolan heard the words, she could only give a resentful hum, hugged Xiaoyu, and got out of the car with Ling Changfeng.The thought of comparing Qingguang swordsmanship with the young master's gentleman's way in his heart couldn't help being extinguished.

However, of course, his young master didn't let his young master know about the rivalry between the two, otherwise Ling Changfeng would definitely brainwash her immediately.Otherwise, when Xiaolan saw that he was not an all-in-one enemy, she might have greatly discounted her opinion of her predecessor.

Ling Changfeng was completely unaware of Xiaolan's inner thoughts. After getting off the carriage, he casually looked around the slaughterhouse.

Although it is one of the only two slaughterhouses in Luoyang, it is just a closed house with a lot of wooden pillars in a patchwork order, and there are no walls and wooden boards for partitions, but a layer of thatched shed is simply added on top of it. To keep out the rain, there are many adobe brick platforms for slaughtering in the slaughterhouse, on which the usual butchers perform their cooking skills.

The road leading to the slaughterhouse is already pitch-black, soaked in years of blood and rain, and the stench is tangy.The flies are buzzing and flying, enjoying this "delicious".

The ground inside the slaughterhouse is even covered with a layer of greasy dirt, one must be careful when walking inside, otherwise it is easy to come into close contact with this year-round dirt.

In normal times, even if it was the peak period of slaughterhouse transactions, there were countless pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered, and there were not many people except the butcher.

However, since yesterday afternoon, since this place was sealed off, there are patrolling police officers with masks on their heads everywhere, but there is not a single pig or sheep.

For those policemen, there are not many cases where the environment is so harsh.

Some common people originally wanted to come in to slaughter and trade pigs and sheep, but when they saw so many official posts here, they immediately extinguished their thoughts and hurriedly turned around and went back and forth.I was afraid of being detained by the officials, otherwise my day would be wasted.

At this moment, Ling Changfeng and Xiaolan are thickening their masks. Under the layers of masks, they just need to be able to barely breathe.

The detectives inside quickly saw a young man and woman standing outside, and after walking over slowly, they shouted sharply: "Who are you two? The government office is doing business, and idlers can't wait to watch! Get back quickly!"

Seeing his arrogance, Xiaolan was about to teach him a lesson, but Ye Jingyan walked over at this moment, cupped his hands and said, "Why are you two envoys here today? Master Meng is interrogating yesterday's slaughterhouse in a distant gazebo." Let's wait."

Ling Changfeng pulled La Xiaolan and said, "We want to go in and see the scene of Zhu Liu's death. We were stopped by this arrester just now."

Ye Jingyan hurriedly said: "This is Master Meng's order. No one is allowed to enter at will until the blockade is lifted. I hope you will forgive me!" Although his tone of reply was kind, there was a refusal in every word.

Ling Changfeng reached out to pick up the token of the special envoy, and said in a cold voice: "Why, isn't even the emperor allowed to enter? Hmph! I'm afraid Mr. Meng wouldn't dare to do this in person!"

Seeing this, Ye Jingyan had no choice but to wink at his subordinates and let them make way.He cupped his hands and said: "I don't care about it, the special envoy will go in for the time being, and I will report to Master Meng right away."

Ling Changfeng and the others didn't care whether he communicated or not, ignored him, and walked slowly inward on their own.

The road surface was really slippery. At this moment, Ling Changfeng was following Xiaolan closely, holding Xiaolan with one hand and Xiaoyu with the other.Just now Ling Changfeng was inattentive, his foot slipped and almost fell.If it wasn't for Xiaolan's sharp eyesight and quick hands to grab her in time, I'm afraid she would be in a mess.

So Lan walked to the front and was led by the young master.As for Xiaoyu, of course she cherished her white and clean little paws, and hugged Ling Changfeng tightly.

After walking hundreds of feet, the two finally stopped.Zhu Liu in front of him was lying quietly on the desk in the slaughterhouse.I don't know how many pigs and sheep have been slaughtered on this countertop, but this is the first time someone is lying on it.

I saw that Zhu Liu's face was pale, blood remained at the corner of his mouth, his lips were black, and his hands were bruised to varying degrees.There are messy footprints on the ground. I don't know if they were left by the murderer or the people who came to slaughter the pigs and sheep.

There are no signs of damage to the surrounding items.After asking people around, they learned that Zhu Liu's body was moved out from under the desk, that's why no one discovered Zhu Liu's death yesterday.And the coroner has also seen the corpse, and preliminarily judged that the deceased died at noon yesterday. He had fought with others before his death.

Ling Changfeng carefully inspected Zhu Liu's body and found that there was nothing special about it.It was basically the same as the coroner's judgment.Taking a look at Zhu Liu's shoulder, there is a silver needle tattoo on his shoulder.Immediately, he wiped the blood from the corner of Zhu Liu's mouth with a cloth, and wrapped it up carefully.

Xiaolan saw that her young master was thinking, so she curiously explored the surrounding environment, hoping to find something.

Ling Changfeng straightened up, seeing Xiaolan still looking around, he smiled and said, "Xiaolan, what are you looking at?"

Xiaolan immediately said, "Master, don't you think it's strange?"

Ling Changfeng heard the words and said, "Really? There is indeed something abnormal, but you discovered it. Come, tell me your opinion."

"The butcher Zhu Liu was poisoned at noon yesterday. It stands to reason that in such a stinky environment, no one should be able to eat food, right? Can this still be poisoned?" Xiaolan said proudly view.

Ling Changfeng nodded, and said with a smile, "Xiao Lan, it's not bad, I learned reasoning so quickly." Seeing Xiao Lan's air of being praised, he explained: "It's exactly as you said. But Zhu Liu committed suicide Yes, he was easily subdued before he was alive, and then he crushed the poison pill hidden in his mouth, and died of poisoning."

Xiaolan nodded, thinking to herself: "I'm afraid this murderer is not simple. Such a slippery ground can easily take down Zhu Liu."

"Let's go, now the only way to find the other murderer is to find out the origin of the poison as soon as possible." After Ling Changfeng finished speaking, he motioned for Xiaolan to lead the way.

"Master, where are we going?" Xiaolan asked from the front.

"Luoyang Baicao Hall!"

(End of this chapter)