September is full of flowers

"Master Xie, how is the body cleaned up?" Shen Man asked in the morgue.The place is gloomy, with no sunshine all year round, and the air is filled with a musty smell.Without lighting candles or pulling up the curtains, as soon as you enter, you will see rows of corpses covered with white cloths lying on poor-quality wooden beds.

Xie Fan had bruises under his eyes, and the face of Zuo beside him looked almost dead.He is very small, with a stooped waist, so his stature is less than half of Shen Man's, and he looks like a dwarf.

Xie Fan replied, "The cleanup is almost done. Thanks to Liu Yu's work, a total of [-] corpses have been cleared up. There are men and women, and they are almost pieced together."

Liu Yuzuo raised his face slightly when they mentioned him, only to feel a chill coming from behind, which startled everyone.

After scanning for a week, Tang Jiuyue suddenly asked, "Are all their fingers still there?"

Xie Fan naturally didn't know this, so he frowned.Liu Yuzuo beside him immediately handed over the inspection report and pointed to a line of words on it expressionlessly. Xie Fan looked at it for a while before saying, "Their fingers are all there, and there is nothing missing."

Shen Man and Tang Jiuyue looked at each other, and logically said that Zhou Ting took Mr. Tang's phalanx. If there was Mr. Tang in the corpse in the cauldron, then there must be a corpse missing the phalanx.Could it be that Mr. Tang's body is not in the mother cauldron?So where will Zhou Gai hide him?Tang Huiyuan didn't say anything about his son's disappearance, so what's going on?

"Have you found out their identities?"

"Most of them have been found out. As you said, they are all maids and servants who came out of Zhou Mansion. The remaining unidentified corpses should be the same." Xie Fan was afraid of offending Zhou Gai, but Now that the evidence is solid, he has gradually settled down.As long as you find out who the murderer is and report the truth to your superiors to the emperor, how to deal with Zhou Gai is the emperor's business.I can count myself as having completed my errand, at least the higher-ups will not punish me for a crime of dereliction of duty, it can be said that there is merit for no merit, and this mess should be able to pass smoothly.

"Then thank you sir for taking care of the aftermath, we have to leave first." Tang Jiuyue said.

Xie Fan also had to be busy with official documents, so he didn't want to keep him, and bid farewell to the Tang sisters.

After leaving the county office, Shen Man asked, "Should we still go to the Zhou Mansion?"

Tang Jiuyue twitched her lips and said with a slight smile, "You are half right, you are going to the Zhou Mansion, and I am going to the Weather Gate."

Shen Man was a little surprised, "I went to Zhou Mansion alone? I can't deal with Zhou Gai..."

"Currently Zhou Gai is still in the court and not in the mansion. Your main task in going to the Zhou mansion is to find Zhou Ting and lie to her about something in her hand."

"Fingers?"

Tang Jiuyue smiled again, "That's right." She found that talking to Shen Man became more and more effortless, often before she could explain what she was saying, she already understood her own thoughts.

Shen Man stroked his chin and thought for a while, "Okay, I'll do my best. If I can get the phalanx, I can use the 'Beidou Detective' to find its owner. No matter how close to the owner, it can't compare to the original something from this man."

Tang Jiuyue nodded and said, "Yes, we must find my cousin as soon as possible."

"Okay, then we'll split up." Shen Man said.Although it is a bit immoral to cheat the phalanx from a mentally handicapped girl, if you want to find Mr. Tang, you can only try against your conscience.

After parting with Tang Jiuyue, Shen Man was thinking all the way how to cheat Zhou Ting into the bag containing the finger bones.Zhou Ting regards that thing as a treasure, and she will definitely not hand it over easily.Maybe something should be exchanged?

Shen Man stopped in his tracks, and looked at the street vendors who were selling handmade cloth bags and rouge.Her eyes suddenly lit up, and she happily ran to the hawker's stall.

"Do you have an embroidered bag with bird patterns?" Shen Man asked.

The peddler scratched the back of his head, rummaged through the frame of the cloth bag, and finally found a few columns for Shen Man to look at.Shen Man picked and picked, and finally found a bag with similar color, texture and embroidery, and said happily, "How much is it, I want it!"

Now it's easier to just find a chance to change the bag.

"Miss, do you want to watch something else?" The peddler asked happily.

Shen Man saw that there were still a few beautiful stones, so he picked another one and put it in the bag, weighed it, and was finally very satisfied.

At this time, a young girl-like person came to the stall. Seeing her coming, the vendor immediately opened a drawer and handed a rouge box to the girl.The girl was also very proud, and handed over a piece of silver in her hand to the peddler.

All this fell into Shen Man's eyes. After the girl left, Shen Man asked the peddler, "What did you give that girl just now?"

The vendor showed embarrassment, "It's just an ordinary rouge box, nothing unusual."

Shen Man couldn't believe it, "If it was an ordinary rouge box, how could you sell it so expensively and hide it in the inner drawer?" Seeing the peddler's expression of embarrassment, Shen Man said again, "Don't worry, I want to buy one too. The rouge box." She had just glanced at it briefly, but the engraving of the box and the inlaid beads felt absolutely extraordinary.She often has a thought recently, that is, she always wants to give Tang Jiuyue something strange and interesting when she sees it.Now I happen to see a beautiful rouge box, so I naturally want to buy it.

The peddler was slightly surprised, "The girl wants it too?"

Shen Man said with a smile, "I know yours must be a good thing, I want one too, I wonder if you still have it?"

The peddler rolled his eyes, put on a smiling face and said, "Of course there are more." Then he took another one out of the drawer.Holding it in his hand, Shen Man felt that this one was tighter and more beautiful than the one just now, and it was hard to see the workmanship just by looking at the appearance.So he said, "I want this one, but why are you hiding these rouge boxes? Wouldn't it sell better if they were kept outside?"

"Girl doesn't know, these things can't be put on the surface at will." The peddler took the money and was in a particularly good mood.

"Why not?"

Just as the peddler was about to explain, another group of girls surrounded him, so he had no time to talk to Shen Man.Shen Man was blocked from the crowd, put away the embroidered bag and the rouge box, and went to Zhou Mansion as agreed with Tang Jiuyue.

It was night, and Shen Man returned to the house first. As soon as he entered the house, he saw Tang Jiuyue coming back with a finger hooked on the rope in disgust, carrying a fish.The fish looks special, it looks a little ugly, white and fat.

Tang Jiuyue never ate fish, why did she suddenly bring a fish back?Shen Man went up to take the fish, and Tang Jiuyue said, "I brought it back from the weather gate, let's cook it tonight."

Shen Man was very confused, "Don't you not eat fish?"

Tang Jiuyue straightened her sleeves without raising her head and said, "I don't want to eat it, but you like it."

Shen Man was taken aback.

Only then did Tang Jiuyue look up at her, with a look of embarrassment flashing across her face, she cleared her throat and said, "This was given to me by Tang Huiyuan. It’s okay to try it.”

Shen Man said happily, "In this case, I will steam it, so that I can taste the meat of this fish the best."

Tang Jiuyue looked at Shen Man's back carrying the fish away, and the corner of her mouth slowly curved into an arc.After Shen Man completely disappeared around the corner, Tang Jiuyue raised her hand to look at the fingers holding the rope just now, and rubbed it together, as if the torture she suffered along the way just now had disappeared.

Shen Man came back soon, her mood was ups and downs along the way, she knew in her heart that Tang Jiuyue treated her well, but she didn't dare to draw conclusions to what extent.The rouge box that can be bought must be given away tonight. Although Tang Damenjian is born with good skin and there is no pimple on his face, women love beauty, so it is not wrong to give rouge.

"Miss Tang, this is for you." Shen Man anxiously took out the rouge box and placed it on the table in front of Tang Jiuyue.Then he faltered and waited for her reaction.

But Supervisor Tang didn't move at all, she just looked at the rouge box on the table, wondering what she was thinking.After a while, she blinked her eyes, raised her head and asked Shen Man, "What is this?"

Shen Man was speechless, he raised his forehead and said, "You've never used this thing before?"

Tang Jiuyue shook her head numbly, "No."

Shen Man patiently explained, "This is a rouge box, which is commonly used by women."

"Oh?" Tang Jiuyue fiddled with the box, frowning slightly, "Thank you." Then she finally found the mechanism to open the rouge box, and slowly opened the box.The moment she saw what was in the box, her complexion changed slightly.After staring at the things inside for a while, blinking his eyelashes, he raised his head and asked, "Are you sure you want to give this thing to me?"

"En." Shen Man nodded shyly.

"You said every woman needs this thing?" Tang Jiuyue looked puzzled.

"That's right." Shen Man felt that Supervisor Tang's reaction was a bit wrong. He just got up and wanted to take a closer look at the box, but he didn't expect a sudden sound from the kitchen.

Shen Man and Tang Jiuyue looked in that direction at the same time, and then thought of one thing: Oops, that fish in the kitchen!

At this time, I heard Master Li screaming, "Oh, who steamed a puffer fish in the kitchen, and put it in the pot before washing it. Do you know that it will eat people to death! Ahhh!" It sounded like he was throwing up.

Shen Man and Tang Jiuyue looked at each other.Is this fish poisonous?

"You and I have eaten the black blood centipede from Mangshan Mountain, and it is immune to all poisons." Tang Jiuyue said unhurriedly, "This fish...is still edible."

Shen Man, "..."

Lian Yi suddenly jumped out and snatched the rouge box from Tang Jiuyue's hand, "This rouge box is so beautiful, since Tang Baiyi doesn't need it, give it to me..." Her ending sound suddenly became a little strange, her eyes fixed on The opened rouge box stared round, suddenly looked at Shen Man, and asked, "Did you buy this thing? Do you want to give it to Tang Baiyi?"

"Yeah, what's the matter?" Shen Man felt that something was wrong, and wanted to take it over to have a look.

Lian Yi swallowed and said, "I didn't expect your taste to be so vulgar... I guess I misread you..." Then he opened the rouge box and put it on the table.

Shen Man leaned over to take a look, and couldn't help but blushed.

After all her calculations, she could not have guessed that there was a picture of a stunning beauty in the rouge box...

Thinking of the cautiousness of the peddler and the blush on the face of the girl who bought the rouge box, she finally understood the reason.At this moment, she only felt that her face was burning red, and she dared not face Tang Jiuyue again.I can't wait to find a seam in the ground and get in and never come out.

Tang Jiuyue picked up the rouge box, looked at it carefully over and over again, and then calmly folded it back into her sleeve.Facing Shen Man, he calmly said, "Since this is a gift from you, it is also necessary for every woman, so I will accept it."

Shen Man wanted to strangle himself to death, he lowered his head and rubbed the corner of his clothes, which was almost torn by her.

Tang Jiuyue glanced in the direction of the kitchen and said, "Since the fish is ready, go and bring it to us to eat."