Acacia, don't be negative

Chapter 68 West Street Butcher Shop
Ye Song paused with his chopsticks, and looked at her with a half-smile: "Don't you think your young lady is very thin and strong?"

"No, the servant girl looks desolate and weak."

After dinner, the sun outside was very bright and warm, and the wind was also warm. She spread out the reclining chairs on the sunny porch in the yard for a while, feeling drowsy and sleepy, so she basked in the sun for a while and took a nap.

After a leisurely and carefree day, Ye Song regained his senses the next day, remembering the murder case that might be related to Guoxi the night before, so he planned to go out for a walk in his spare time, and found out by the way Something.But when she got to the door and was stopped by the guards, she suddenly remembered, bad, the jade pendant was taken back by Su Chen, and now she can't leave the house casually.

It just so happened that Su Chen came back to accompany Nanshu after breakfast and went out to work, Ye Song immediately put on a flowery smile and said, "My lord is going out to investigate the case so early, it's really a blessing for the people to do their duty."

In Su Chen's words: "Well, what do you want to do?"

Ye Song smiled harmlessly: "Let's go together."

Su Chen walked past Ye Song, glanced at her indifferently, "If you have nothing to do, just stay in the palace."

After taking two steps, the corner of his clothes tightened.Ye Song reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes, so that the guards did not dare to stop him. Ye Song smiled and said, "You don't want me to help you?"

Su Chen sneered: "It's because I took back the Qilin Jade, you can't go out casually, so use me as a cover."

Ye Song didn't argue, and said, "Ah, you saw it."

Seeing that Ye Song refused to let go no matter what, Su Chen had no choice but to grab her and pull her onto the horse, and they left the palace together.Ye Song grabbed the rein and said again: "Didn't you say that you would give me a horse today? I don't want to ride the same horse as you to show off."

Su Chen turned cold, and said, "You don't like it?"

Ye Song turned his head and looked at him with a smile: "I'm afraid that sister Nanshu might misunderstand. How about we go to the racecourse first, and after you give me the horse, I will ride my own horse."

Su Chen was a little angry, but as soon as she mentioned Nanshu, he had no choice but to hold back his anger, turned his head and went to the racecourse, and really picked a horse for Ye Song.Compared with the docile white horse last time, this horse is a bit taller, brown, handsome and handsome, and looks more rebellious.

This was chosen by Ye Song himself.

Su Chen warned her at that time: "This Hequ horse was brought over from Rongdi. It has a wild temper and is not easy to listen to."

Ye Song was even more satisfied after hearing this, and touched the horse's face, but it turned her head proudly, and she said, "Don't be afraid, I just like this one."

Seeing Ye Song get on the horse, the Hequ horse was dissatisfied and circling in circles, Ye Song pulled the rein to force it to stop, Su Chen said: "Whatever you want, you deserve it if you get thrown."

Then the two rushed to the scene of the crime the night before.

After wandering outside for two days without gaining anything, Ye Song was reluctant to go any further. The investigators of Dali Temple had already expanded their search area to a radius of ten miles around Liu Shishi's shop, and Ye Song felt more and more fond of the Hequ horse. Interested, she couldn't go out when Su Chen was not in the palace, so she went to the racecourse to tame her horse.After Ye Song was thrown several times, he was very unhappy, and he started to wrestle with his bare hands while lying on the horse's back...

It was a stallion, but it had fluffy and beautiful hair. Ye Song liked to grab its hair when he got anxious, and scolded: "I told you to pull, I will pull you out, so that you will never find a wife! You have provoked me, and I will castrate you!"

This horse really understands human nature... It seems to be aware of the seriousness of the problem, so it is a little low-key.

Later, I heard that the murder weapon used to kill Liu Shishi was found within a ten-mile search range. It was indeed the carving knife Liu Shishi usually used, with blood stains, and it was thrown in a pigsty of a common people who was separated from the alley by a wall. .When I found it, it had been trampled back and forth by two pigs in the pigsty, making it dirty and smelly.About one pig mistakenly thought it was a toy, so it played happily, but the pig's mouth was injured. The owner found the word "Liu" engraved on the knife. He didn't dare to delay, so he hurriedly reported it to the investigators of Dali Temple. .

Ye Song asked to go out with Su Chen, but Su Chen didn't refuse, Ye Song dressed as a man and drove to the common people's house with him. After detailed questioning, they didn't know about it, and there was no trace of guilt in their frightened expressions. Not intentionally harboring a murderer.

That was the murderer passing by outside and throwing it into the pigsty.

Su Chen gave the order to go along the alley and check the people living in the entire alley.

At this time, Ye Song saw a beggar holding a broken bowl and limping past in ragged clothes with a cane. He knew that he had encountered a high-ranking official, so he shrank his head timidly and walked past as fast as possible. , Ye Song suddenly stopped him and asked: "There are few people in this quiet alley, why are you here begging?"

The beggar said obediently: "My lord, this is a shortcut to West Street. If you want to beg for a meal, you have to go to a crowded place quickly."

Ye Song waved his hand, and the beggar left in a hurry.She looked back at Su Chen and smiled: "Why don't we go to the lively West Street together?"

The two got off their horses, without a guard, and they were both dressed in casual clothes, like ordinary people, and walked through this alley to West Street.That West Street is like an enlarged version of the farmers' market. Selling chicken, duck, fish, vegetables, melons and fruits occupies a very long road. There are many people passing through it, most of them are maids and housekeepers who are in charge of purchasing from wealthy families in the capital.The market here is thriving because of the high demand.

The two walked in the middle of the street, passed the chicken and duck sellers, followed by the pork sellers, both sides were filled with chopping boards, with pieces of pork on them, and a lot of iron hooks hanging from the top, shouting and buzzing extraordinary.Most of those butchers were three-year-old and five-year-old men with strong arms and proficient sword skills, and even the bones were cut neatly with one blow.Ye Song couldn't help but look twice more, Su Chen also thought of what she thought of, and the two of them lingered around, as if they were carefully selecting the best pork, Ye Song said nonchalantly: "I'm very strong, I often use knives, Or left-handed, have you ever thought that the murderer might be among them?"

Su Chen remained silent, and after a while, the two of them were already standing in front of a pork shop. The butcher was a fat man with a pleasant face. His meat seemed to be extraordinarily fresh. The color of the meat was a little different from ordinary pork, but it was also the same Can't tell the difference.

The business in front of his shop is very good. Seeing Su Chen and Ye Song coming, he asked with a smile: "You two guests, what kind of meat do you want?"

Ye Song smiled, reached out to fiddle with the pork hanging on the iron hook, carefully selected it for a while, and said, "I see that the meat here is quite fresh, boss."

"Of course, I just killed it this morning!"

Before Ye Song could decide which piece he wanted, another customer came up and said very familiarly, "Fatty Wang, give me two catties of meat."

"Good Le!"

After the customer bought the meat and left, Fatty Wang asked Ye Song again: "Have you selected the guest officer yet?"

Ye Song pointed to a pile of bones on the chopping board, and said, "I don't want any more meat. Give me all these meat and bones. I'll take them back and make bone porridge for my mother-in-law."

She is now dressed as a man, and no one else can tell the difference.It's just that when Fatty Wang heard the word "mother-in-law", his complexion changed a little, and he smiled a little forcedly, and said: "The guest officer is really considerate of his mother-in-law, so please, then I will wrap it up for you, but the mother-in-law don't treat her like that." That’s great, they’re all pushing the envelope.”

Ye Song joked, "Why, could it be that your mother-in-law is a bitch?" Fatty Wang moved a little slower, and she sighed again, "My family is also fierce and vicious like a hag, For the past two days, I have been screaming and wanting to eat meaty bones, and I’ve been grinded to the brim.” Seeing that Fatty Wang was about to tie up several meaty bones with a linen rope, she hurriedly stopped her, “Hey, don’t tie them up for me, you Cut it into pieces for me, or I will have to cut it myself later, and the knives at home are not fast enough."

Fatty Wang agreed again and again, and hurriedly brought a knife and sharpened it on the iron pole twice, and began to chop bones with his hands.

Left-handed, the knife moves downward.Ye Song squinted his eyes and looked at Su Chen.

Fatty Wang chopped it back and said: "This bone can mend people. Take it back and throw it into the pot to make a delicious broth. In fact, there is no need to cut it up."

Ye Song smiled and said, "The pot is small at home, and the mother-in-law likes to suck bone marrow."

Fatty Wang didn't doubt that he was there, so he cut the bones into pieces, wrapped them in oiled paper, and said, "It's a total of one or two or three silver coins."

Ye Song looked at Su Chen: "Pay."

Su Chen paid the money cooperatively, then took the oiled paper bag, and walked out of West Street together.

Walking out of the West Street, two guards immediately came from the eaves, obviously just secretly watching, Su Chen handed them the oiled paper bag in his hand, and ordered: "Keep an eye on that butcher."

The two of them walked back to the quiet alley. There were pedestrians passing by in a hurry in the alley, and most of them couldn't compare to Su Chen and Ye Song's leisurely at the moment.But no one showed a relaxed expression. Ye Song put his hands behind his head and let out a sigh of relief.

The sunshine is golden and pure, and the cracks of the walls on both sides of the alley are covered with green grass, which sways gently in the breeze, complementing the thin moss on the walls.Su Chen looked sideways at Ye Song's sun-drenched face, and asked, "What are you sighing for?"

"I can't figure it out."

"Where can't you figure it out?"

Ye Song said slowly: "Do you still remember that night when I found the carving knives, I put them in a cloth bag and put them on the corner of the counter. Collecting them together means that his day's work has been completed."

"How strange that is, perhaps the murderer killed him just after his day's work."

Ye Song turned to look at him, and said in a cold voice, "What about the murderer's carving knife? He took one out of his cloth bag just to kill someone? The room is so chaotic and fierce, he still has time to go. Find out where the knife is and draw it?"

(End of this chapter)