After rebirth, my wife just wants to be a widow

Hearing Shen Ruoyan's question, a trace of unnaturalness flashed across Lu Yan's face.

He took another sip of tea to cover up his embarrassment and said, "I'm telling you this because I want you to know more about my past."

Shen Ruoyan suddenly felt that she couldn't answer the words, so she laughed a few times.

If she hadn't wanted to know about the sachet, she would have immediately picked up her skirt and left.

Seeing Shen Ruoyan's expression of impatience, Lu Yan started to talk about the business:

"I remember that we met a tribe at that time. The people there were very good at taming various wild beasts. After taming the tiger, it became as good as a cat.

The animal tamers told me that tigers have all five senses but are most sensitive to smells. They often use special spices, combined with punishments and rewards, to make tigers obey their instructions. "

Having said this, Lu Yan pointed to the two sachets on the table and said:

"So, I suspect that someone used the sachet to guide the tiger to attack your mother and Mrs. Li."

Shen Ruoyan was shocked after hearing this, not because of the conclusion Lu Yan came to.

She had already thought of this possibility, but what she didn't expect was that she told her father about it, but was questioned by him.

However, even her father didn't believe her, but Lu Yan was pursuing the matter.

Shen Ruoyan suppressed the surprise in her heart and said to Lu Yan:

"You suspected that some special spices were added to the sachets on my mother and Mrs. Li, so you asked Su Xihe to bring her mother's sachet for comparison?"

Lu Yan nodded, "I will find someone to identify the ingredients in these two sachets later, and I will inform you after I get the exact information."

"No need." Shen Ruoyan put the sachet sent by Su Xihe to the tip of her nose, smelled it, and asked Lu Yan, "Do you have a knife or scissors here?"

Lu Yan took out a small knife from his sleeve, turned the blade, and handed the handle to Shen Ruoyan.

Shen Ruoyan carefully opened the seams of the sachet with a knife, poured some powder out, placed it on the table and observed it carefully.

Then, she took a little more, pinched it on her fingertips, and rubbed it gently a few times with her index finger and thumb.

The temperature of the fingertips slowly brought out the original smell of the spices. Shen Ruoyan got closer and took a sniff, and she had the answer in her heart.

As a well-known lady in the capital, making and blending incense is also a must-learn craft.

Shen Ruoyan has participated in many incense competitions and incense tasting activities since she was a child, and she has always been the best among them. She can guess almost all the spices just by looking at them and smelling them.

After returning from the hunting ground, Shen Ruoyan smelled the sachet next to her countless times, and she knew the ingredients inside the sachet quite clearly.

Now, just compare it with the sachet sent by Su Xihe, and you will know whether there are any other ingredients added to the sachet of my mother and Mrs. Li.

Shen Ruoyan wiped the powder on her fingertips with a handkerchief, then picked up the sachet with a hole in it and smelled it.

Both sachets exude this cool woody aroma, but if you smell it carefully, you can find that the latter's aroma also has a hint of resinous bitterness.

Shen Ruoyan put down the sachet and said with great certainty:

"It's Huoxiang."

In the sachets of mother and Mrs. Li, there was an extra scent of patchouli.

Patchouli has a spicy and fragrant smell. It has the functions of resolving dampness, refreshing the spleen, and repelling filth. It is often combined with other herbal medicines to make sachets, which can indeed prevent insects and repel snakes.

But the strange thing is that Shen Ruoyan did not smell the scent of Patchouli in Su Xihe's mother's sachet, but her mother and Mrs. Li's sachets contained this medicinal ingredient.

Then this thing is unusual!

Patchouli is not a scent that wild animals like, but the tiger is extremely sensitive to this scent. Could it be that someone deliberately domesticated it as Lu Yan said?

Shen Ruoyan's expression became serious and she asked Lu Yan:

"What else did you find?"

Lu Yan did not answer directly, but asked her a question:

"Have you ever wondered how this tiger ended up in the hunting ground?"

Shen Ruoyan thought along his train of thought.

Since we know that this tiger was deliberately tamed by someone, then this tiger cannot be a wild beast that grew up in the mountains and forests.

Shen Ruoyan expressed her guess:

"Did someone transport the tiger here?"

Lu Yan touched Shen Ruoyan's head very naturally and praised, "You're so smart."

Shen Ruoyan didn't want to be too close to Lu Yan, but at the moment she still wanted something from him, so she couldn't fall out with Lu Yan immediately, so she could only turn her head away with a cold face.

Lu Yan took back his hand and continued to express his speculation:

“To raise such a huge beast, it is impossible to keep it in the villages around the hunting ground, otherwise the tiger’s roar will be heard by the villagers, which will arouse suspicion and expose the traces.

I guess they tamed the tiger in a remote place and then transported it to the woods near the hunting ground.

A carriage traveling on the official road for one day can cover up to 300 miles.But to transport such a behemoth, if they go on the road during the day, the target will be too big, so in order to avoid people's eyes and ears, they will probably choose to move after dark, and we can narrow the search area to about 100 miles. "

After listening to Lu Yan's analysis, Shen Ruoyan raised a possibility:

"Then can they stun the tiger, then disguise it as cargo and transport it over long distances?"

Lu Yan nodded, cast an approving look at her, and said:

"I have also considered this possibility, but this tiger is so big that it needs to be stun, and the dose of medicine needs to be doubled. If you want to make him sleep for a long time, you have to keep feeding the stun drug, which will greatly reduce the tiger's ability to sleep. combat effectiveness.

However, the tiger we encountered that day was extremely ferocious and looked like it had been stunned for a long time, so I determined that the journey from the place where it was trained to Qingyang Hunting Ground would not exceed one day at most. "

After listening to Lu Yan's logical and rigorous analysis, Shen Ruoyan was filled with admiration in her heart, which was a kind of admiration for the strong.

However, when she thought that such a very smart person was not her friend, but her enemy, Shen Ruoyan shuddered.

Seeing her unhappy expression, Lu Yan thought Shen Ruoyan was worried about how to investigate, so he took the initiative to tell her his plan:

"To be on the safe side, I have asked people to investigate all private villages within 300 miles of Qingyang Hunting Ground. We should be able to find some clues."

Unexpectedly, Shen Ruoyan's face became even more ugly as soon as Lu Yan said these words.

Shen Ruoyan grimaced and sighed in her heart:

Your opponent is not only smarter than you, but also richer and more capable than you. How should you fight this battle?