Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 261 Tips
"This dungeon is not ventilated. Apart from the gate at the entrance, there is no other way out. If a fire comes, this place will become a sea of ​​fire in the true sense, and there is no possibility of escape. Coming here to avoid the fire is not It's a wise move." Zhang Xuanming thought for a while and said.

"One more thing. Before I came down, I saw a lot of broken wine jars around the rockery, and there was still alcohol smell around. It is impossible for adults to ignore this point if they avoid the fire. Burning will eventually spread to this dungeon."

Zhang Xuanming looked at the traces of the burning, and thought: "Moreover, the fire here is indeed caused by the alcohol around the rockery. If I were an adult, I would definitely not choose the dungeon as a hiding place. Because, this is An out-and-out Jedi."

After listening to Zhang Xuanming's analysis, Chang Feng and Xiao Wu looked at each other and felt that it made sense.

"That's right, I heard Lord Shang Shu say that he rescued some imprisoned girls in a dungeon with His Excellency. Now that I think about it, it should be this dungeon. Doctor Zhang is right. Since Your Excellency has stayed in this dungeon, naturally Knowing the environment of this dungeon, it is impossible to trap yourself to death here." Chang Feng recalled what Cui Huan said to him last night, and suddenly said.

"You said your lord has stayed here?" Zhang Xuan hurriedly asked.

"Well, according to Lord Shangshu, this dungeon was used to imprison women. In order to let them escape, the Lord deliberately exposed himself to distract the guards, so that they escaped safely." After a short pause , Chang Feng added: "By the way, it is said that this fire was also set by adults."

"What? Did the adults set the fire?" Xiao Wu's jaw almost dropped in shock.

Chang Feng nodded and said: "Lichunfang was originally the former site of the Yamen. A few years ago, the Yamen caught fire. I thought the dungeon had been burned down long ago. I didn't expect it to be intact and used as a criminal stronghold. , it makes no sense at all!"

He clenched his fists and said angrily: "Your Excellency, this fire is well done! If I had known that Lichun Fang was full of filth, I would have set it on fire long ago!"

"Catch the head, have you ever caught someone who committed the crime?" Zhang Xuan asked desperately.

Chang Feng shook his head annoyedly, and said: "The girl from Lichun Fang and others have long since fled away, and the rest are just some brothel girls who don't know about this matter at all. However, I have sent additional manpower to carry out inspections throughout the city. Search, I don't believe they can still fly."

Zhang Xuan ordered his hands to be wrapped in his sleeves, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.

He stared at the corpse for a while, then suddenly said: "Everyone, search carefully in this cell again to see if you find anything."

Chang Feng was stunned for a moment, he scratched his head, and said puzzledly: "What can you find here?"

"I don't know, but I have an intuition that my lord will not set fire for no reason. Besides, my lord has always been thoughtful, so there must be clues left here." Zhang Xuanming pondered.

Chang Feng and Xiao Wu looked at Zhang Xuanming suspiciously. They didn't know why Zhang Xuanming was so sure that there would be clues left behind, but they didn't dare to relax, and hurriedly searched carefully within the cell.

The three searched carefully in the cell, but found nothing after searching the cell, which made them doubt their previous judgment.

"It seems that the lord didn't leave any clues, maybe we thought too much." Chang Feng straightened his waist and said a little tiredly.

"No, there is still one place we haven't checked." Following Zhang Xuanming's words, the eyes of the two immediately turned to the human figure made of sesame seeds on the ground.

"Is this unlikely? How could your lord have left clues under the corpse?" Chang Feng said while rubbing his nose.

"This person was not burned to death when my lord was in the dungeon. If you were a lord, where would you leave clues?" Zhang Xuanming asked back.

Chang Feng scratched his head and thought for a long time but couldn't figure out why.

"If it were me, I would choose to leave clues in places I am familiar with. Let's make a hypothesis, assuming that this person is a murderer, and he passed out here. There is only one situation, and he is planted in the hands of adults. This kind of Under normal circumstances, if I want to leave relevant clues, I will choose the most obvious but most inconspicuous place." Zhang Xuanming looked at the traces on the ground and thought.

"Both obvious and inconspicuous?" Xiao Wu frowned. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly said: "I know, the most obvious thing is the person who passed out on the ground, and the inconspicuous place is under that person."

Having said that, Xiao Wu hurriedly burned all the sesame seeds aside with a broom.

The fat of the corpse seeps into the ground, forming clear signs on the ground. This situation makes people feel a little creepy, as if a person is embedded in the ground alive.

Chang Feng's face was as ugly as a pig's liver, and when he thought that the fat on the ground was the trace of a person being burned by fire, he felt a sudden tumbling in his stomach.

Xiao Wu and Zhang Xuanming didn't take it seriously, they squatted on the ground and searched carefully.

Sure enough, after a while, Xiao Wu found a clue under the left chest of the figure.

"One vertical? What does this mean?" Zhang Xuanming frowned, looking at the symbols found on the ground with some puzzlement.

Chang Feng also leaned over. He saw a deep scratch on the ground, which seemed to be made by a sharp weapon. He only had a simple vertical stroke, and he was also at a loss.

"My lord once taught me that this is the number '1', which is what we often call 'one'. But I don't understand, why did my lord keep this?" Xiao Wu stared at the '1', his face full of tears. Confuse.

"Since my lord has left this mark, there must be a deep meaning." Zhang Xuanming pondered for a moment, then suddenly said: "Think carefully, has your lord ever told you about the sequence or numbers?"

The two were stunned for a moment, and then fell into recollection. After a while, the two shook their heads at the same time, expressing that they didn't have any impression.

Zhang Xuanming thought for a while, and pondered: "Since it is a number, we can speculate based on it. Dao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things. One is the first of numbers and the beginning of all things. The adults leave Is the message for us to seek out some number one person or object?"

"One, two, three?" Chang Feng muttered a few words, then suddenly slapped his head and shouted, "Oh, I know!"

The two looked at him at the same time: "What do you know?"

Chang Feng looked around, and said in a low voice: "Master gave me three tips before he left. He said that they were given by the adults before he fell into a coma. We opened them when we were confused, and let us act according to the tips."

"Oh? And this matter? Why didn't I hear you mention it?" Zhang Xuanming was slightly surprised.

"The past two days have been busy looking for the whereabouts of those Dongying people, and the master didn't disclose the timing of opening the kit, so he ignored it." Chang Feng grinned awkwardly, took out three kits from his arms and said: "This is the master's kit."

Zhang Xuanming took the brocade pouch, looked carefully, and found that the three brocade pouches were embroidered with numbers representing the order.

"Brother Zhang, do you think your lord left this mark to let us open the bag?" Xiao Wu asked in bewilderment.

"Well, my lord is far-sighted, maybe he noticed some clues and left a mark, telling us to act according to the tip." Zhang Xuanming pinched the tip bag with the word 'one' embroidered on it, and said: "Yes or no, Just open it and look at it."

The two nodded, and Zhang Xuanming immediately opened the kit.

There is only a piece of paper in the kit, which reads: Fake death to survive.

Chang Feng and Xiao Wu suddenly felt a little confused, unable to figure out what this sentence meant.

"Brother Zhang, what's the meaning of this?" Xiao Wu asked suspiciously.

Zhang Xuanming looked at the words written on the note, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly nodded and said: "I already know what your lord means."

(End of this chapter)