The Old Lady is Not Cute, Super Fierce

"Mingyuexin, Mingyuexin, Yuezhixin, it's really a good name." The scholar spared a few mouthfuls, cupped his fists and said, "Xiaosheng's surname is Lu, his name is Ren, he's just a scholar."

Oh, it turned out to be a passer-by, and there is still one letter A missing, which is a pity.

Shen Mengyan thought silently, and said with a smile: "Please wait a moment, Mr. Lu."

As he said that, without waiting for the other party to answer, he immediately turned around and looked at the other notices.

[Trigger task: Killing beasts

Mission description: Someone in Niujia Village died at home. It is said that his body was scratched by wild animals. There are rumors that cat monsters hurt people, and there are also rumors that black panthers hurt people. Find out the truth and find the murderer. Time limit, [-] days . ]

Most of the other notices have expired, but one of them still triggered the task. Looking at this task, Shen Mengyan was taken aback.

Cat demon?

The last time I met was a ghost, will I finally meet a demon this time?

Chapter 19 Wool

To say that the most famous teahouse in Fengjing must be Chunfeng Shili Pavilion. It is said that drinking tea in this teahouse will make people feel like they are in spring, even if it is summer or winter outside.

But this Lu Ren is not such a rich person, the teahouse he brought Shen Mengyan to is a small roadside tea stand, the kind you can often see in the Iron Triangle with Iron Teeth, Bronze Teeth, and Iron Teeth.

Usually the master eats, but the servants are not allowed to eat, but this Shen family doesn't take this kind of rules very seriously, and the relationship between Chun'er and Shen Mengyan is like sisters, so Shen Mengyan dragged her to sit down together at the moment.

"Miss……"

Chun'er was a little uncomfortable. She carefully looked at Lu Ren who was entertaining guests over there, fearing that the other party would have objections.

Although Lu Ren looked down on the woman in front of him for her indiscriminate attitude, he still put on a big smile and said, "It's okay, it's okay, please sit down, girl, just drink tea."

Shen Mengyan naturally saw the disdain hidden in the other party's eyes, but she still needs to use the other party at this moment, Shen Mengyan pretended not to see: "There are not too many people here, Mr. Lu can carefully explain what's going on, right?" ?”

There were quite a lot of people in that place just now, but there were not many people here at this time. Shen Mengyan guessed that the other party didn't want what she said to be heard by too many people.

After all, there is also a certain distance between tables. If you don’t listen carefully, you won’t hear what the next table is talking about, unless the speaker’s voice is loud.

Lu Ren lowered his voice, moved his head slightly towards the place where the table was, and said mysteriously, "Actually, it's not very useful if the reward comes out."

"Oh? Why did Mr. Lu say that?" Shen Mengyan said again in a timely manner, her eyes were wide open, flickering, just staring at each other.

In order to obtain information, Shen Mengyan is still very happy to be a fan temporarily.

As for how to make the guy on the other side think that she adores him, Shen Mengyan is still very clear about how to make the guy on the other side think that she admires him a lot.

Seeing Shen Mengyan's flickering, adoring eyes, Lu Ren was extremely happy at the moment, and felt that a stream of blood was rushing up like this, so he didn't care so much, and said directly:

"Because the eunuch Gao Qiansui searched for the people's fat and the people's anointing, and also killed many loyal officials. No one likes him. Even if someone really saw it, the people below would not tell him."

"So that's the case. As expected of Mr. Lu, you really have a lot of knowledge." Shen Mengyan smiled, but her heart was haha.

This shows that Gao Chitose, as a qualified villain eunuch, has a lot of power in his hands, and many people are attached to him. The power of these people can wipe out the entire Fengjing. How could it be impossible to find out.

Now Fengjing doesn't seem to be doing much, maybe it's just on the surface, and all kinds of spies in the dark are probably searching everywhere.

It is very difficult to find a needle in a haystack like this, the best way is to go to the scene of the crime to investigate, so Shen Mengyan asked again: "Mr. Lu, it is said that this little thief also stole some rouge and gouache. Where are they from?"

"If Xiaosheng remembers correctly, Shilang Pang's house was burglarized last month. It is said that it is the strange fragrance of the Western Regions, Blood Bodhi."

When Lu Ren said this, the expression on his face was extremely confident, and he could see that he was very confident in his own information.

Shen Mengyan secretly wrote down what the other party said.

Rouge gouache, from good to bad, the price gap is huge, and this blood bodhi Shen Mengyan happens to have it, after all Shen Wanjin is a rich man.

Blood Bodhi is a flower that grows on the snow-capped mountains of the Western Regions. It blooms for less than a few days a year, and it is usually in a budding state.

Once open, it emits a faint floral fragrance, and the entire petals seem to ooze blood.

The scent of the rouge made from this strange flower lasts for a long time, and it is light at first smell, but as it gets closer, not only will it not become weaker, but it will become thicker and thicker, just like walking through a field of flowers from far to near.

Then, the aroma slowly changed, mixed with a trace of flower wine fragrance, mellow, and as light as ink.

The most important thing is that this rouge not only does not hurt the skin after use, but also maintains the skin and makes the skin more radiant and smooth.

It can be said that this is the best rouge.

And such a small box of Blood Bodhi, about the size of a palm, can be sold for more than 200 taels of silver. As for the number of times of use, it only lasts for about three months.

Shen Mengyan has two boxes at home, enough for half a year.

After almost asking the other party about the information about the theft, Shen Mengyan began to search for other information about the other party: "By the way, Mr. Lu, does he know about the cat monster in Niujia Village who hurt people?"

"The cat demon hurts people? Miss Shen is talking about the black panther in Niujia Village hurting people, right? Xiaosheng does know something about it." Lu Ren said immediately, as if offering a treasure: "Where do monsters come from in this world? They are actually animals on the mountain. It's just going down the mountain to hurt people."

"Young master Lu, what you mean is that this is actually a black panther hurting people?"

"That's right, about two years ago, there was also a black panther wounding people. At that time, someone could clearly see that the black panther dragged a person to a tree. At that time, those people hurriedly held torches and iron forks in their hands. It was only then that the black panther was scared away, but unfortunately, the beast was nowhere to be found afterward.”

Speaking of this, Lu Ren smiled: "Now that I think about it, it should be that beast who came out to harm people again."

Panther?My current strength is probably not a big problem against a leopard, but I'd better prepare some flying props, so that I can suppress the opponent in advance.

Shen Mengyan thought secretly in her heart, asked some more questions, and after confirming that she couldn't find any useful information, she said with a smile: "Oh, it's already this hour!"

After finishing speaking, she showed an apologetic look to Lu Ren: "I'm really sorry, it's getting late, and it's time for me to go home, so I won't bother Mr. Lu."

Then, without waiting for the other party to react, he said to Chun'er: "Let's go, Chun'er, it's time to go home, otherwise Daddy will talk about us again."

Chun'er was taken aback, isn't it still early?However, she quickly realized that Shen Mengyan didn't want to continue talking to the scholar, so she quickly got up and said, "Yes, Miss!"

Lu Ren stared blankly at the back of the leaving woman. When he realized that he wanted to ask her address, he couldn't see her.

Shen Mengyan, who had already left, not only did not go in her own direction, but walked in another direction.

"Miss, where are you going?"

"Go to two places, one is Pang Shilang's house, and the other is Li Yuanwai's house."

"Ah?" Chun'er blinked her eyes, not knowing why her lady was going to these two places.

Shen Mengyan pulled Chun'er's hand and walked forward: "Let's go, Miss Ben has an intuition, if you go and have a look, you may have a very good harvest."

Chapter 20 Butterflies

Pang Shilang, as Da Zhao's official servant, is a fourth-rank official. Looking at the other party's mansion in the west city of Fengjing, Shen Mengyan secretly thought about how much money this guy had plundered.

As an imperial city, Fengjing has extremely expensive land, and the house in front of me is extremely valuable.

With the current land price in Fengjing, Shen Mengyan estimated that this house, which is about the same size as her own, would cost ten thousand taels of silver in Fengjing.

As for the income of Pang Shilang, the salary of Dazhao Guoshilang is 55 taels of silver per month. Even if food, tea, allowances, etc. are included, it is less than 200 taels of silver a month, and he has to save it for four years without eating or drinking. , this still needs to sell the distributed cloth and grain for money.

Shen Mengyan whispered to Chun'er beside her: "It seems that working in the official department is really a very happy thing."

Chun'er looked at Shen Mengyan with some doubts, not knowing why Shen Mengyan said that.

At this moment, Shen Mengyan's nose twitched lightly, and she smelled a faint fragrance in the air, which was very light and soft, and it was gradually dissipating.

She turned her head slightly and looked at the alley, which was empty.

Shen Mengyan touched the tip of her nose with her right hand, she was still very familiar with this smell, because it was the aroma of blood bodhi.

Shen Mengyan immediately walked towards the alley over there, and there was nothing in the alley, Shen Mengyan looked on the ground, then looked around, and then said to Chun'er: "Let's go, let's go to another place Take a look somewhere."

"Okay, miss."

The two left the Pang Mansion just like that. Shen Mengyan didn't speak a word along the way. Chun'er looked at Shen Mengyan as if she was thinking about something, and didn't dare to talk to her. They just walked in silence all the way. Shen Mengyan and Chun'er came to another place place.

Luxurious, wealthy, someone's house located in Dongcheng.

"Miss, this is Li Yuanwai's house." Chun'er whispered to Shen Mengyan.

"I know, but it's the same as I thought. People who commit crimes always like to go to the scene to watch." Sensing the faint scent of blood bodhi in the air, Shen Mengyan silently looked at the ground.

The footprints on the ground are very messy. People traveling from south to north left a lot of different footprints, as well as wheel marks.

Among these footprints, Shen Mengyan looked for a target that was more in line with the footprints in her impression.

"Miss, the footprints on the ground are so messy, can you really see something useful?"

"Actually, it's not just about seeing, but also smelling. I just rely on the help of the smell to lock on a small area." The smell will spread, but as long as it doesn't take a long time, you can roughly judge the route of the smell .

"Smell? Miss, there is no special smell here. What you said seems to be talking about dogs." Chun'er whispered.

Shen Mengyan raised her hand and tapped Chun'er on the head: "You're right, calling your lady a dog?"

"Hey, I didn't mean that, it's just what you said, your nose seems to be much stronger than mine."

Shen Mengyan was taken aback for a moment before she realized it.

This is outside, not inside the house. There are a lot of people coming and going. If the smell can be traced so easily, no one will be found until now.

Could it be that the acupoints of the Eight Extra Meridians actually have a part that strengthens the sense of smell?

Although Shen Mengyan was puzzled in her heart, she still tightened her mind, followed the change of the smell, and finally confirmed the direction she was looking for.

"Let's go, let's go to Nancheng." Shen Mengyan said, and continued to take Chun'er to Nancheng.

Nancheng is the place where the people at the bottom of Fengjing live, and they mainly live in ordinary migrant workers. As for the performers, they are generally concentrated in Beicheng.

Compared with the east and west cities, the houses here are much dilapidated. Although there are yards, the yards are also relatively small.

Shen Mengyan just followed the scent, and finally stopped outside a yard.

Inside, there was the sound of children playing.

"Stop, don't run! Xiao Liu, stop!"

"No, I'm not a fool, you have the ability to catch up by yourself!"

Shen Mengyan thought for a while, walked up, and knocked lightly on the door.

After waiting for a while, the yard door was opened with a creak, revealing the timid little head of a little girl who looked like seven or eight years old. She just looked at Shen Mengyan with her two big eyes, and asked cautiously: "Where is this?" Sister, what can you do?"

Shen Mengyan looked at this child and didn't know what to say for a while.

If it was an adult who came out, she could ask directly, but facing the child, she just said, "I'm looking for a thief?"

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't fit.

At this time, several children also came behind the little girl. The oldest one looked about ten years old, and the youngest was only six or seven years old.

These children looked at Shen Mengyan with vigilant expressions, as if they felt that Shen Mengyan was not a good person.