Placid Chang'an

Because the end of the new year is approaching, no one rushes out to deal with bad luck at this time, and it is rare for Dali Temple to relax.Having nothing to do, Zhang Jun led everyone to clean up the inside and outside of Dali Temple.

Mr. Su didn't touch the spring water with his ten fingers, so naturally he would not get involved in these things. Seeing a heavy snowfall, he hurriedly packed his things and planned to leave early.

Before he could walk out of the gate, he was blocked back by someone.

Ning Santong grabbed Su Cen's pigtails and fled in fear of crime, ignoring Su Cen's current mood of returning to his heart. He sat down, poured himself a cup of tea without hesitation, and said to Su Cen: "Maybe I've got you."

Su Cen looked at the small bundle in his hand, what's the matter with this feeling of being caught?

A yamen servant shouted outside the door: "Ning Santong, Mr. Zhang asked you to clean the toilet."

Ning Santong said while drinking tea: "I have a case to discuss with Mr. Su."

Dare to feel that this is someone who came here to take refuge.

Su Cen was still thinking about the picture of "Houyi Cruising the Sun", and told him to lock the door before leaving and continue to sneak away.

Ning Santong put down his teacup and said, "Brother Su, I really have something to discuss with you."

Su Cen rolled her eyes back, "Discuss how to clean the toilet?"

"It's about the corpse." Ning Santong was rarely serious. "I found something wrong with Liu Kang's corpse."

The corpses of Xu Youhuai, Liu Kang, and Cao Wei were placed side by side. Even in winter, the corpses showed signs of decay. It was better for Xu Youhuai and Liu Kang's corpses to be burned into coke, but Cao Wei's corpses were intact. He died of poisoning, and the signs of decay were particularly obvious.

Although Su Cen didn't have any obvious resistance to the corpses during the investigation process, he definitely didn't have the habit of staring at the corpses in dismay, not to mention that these corpses still have their chests and abdomens open, and their intestines are scattered all over the floor.

Su Cen frowned and stared at Ning Santong: "Hurry up, what's the problem?"

Ning Santong signaled Su Cen to wait a moment, then closed the doors and windows tightly, covered them with a black cloth, and the room instantly became dark.Ning Santong approached Su Cen: "Brother Su, did you find anything?"

Su Cen: "... more smelly?"

Ning Santong: "..."

Ning Santong gave Su Cen a look of resentment, and pulled him to the corpse: "Brother Su, take a closer look!"

Su Cen only felt that her eyes hurt from the stench of the corpse, and she covered her nose with a look of disgust: "If you want to talk, say it, if you don't, then go clean the toilet, the toilet smells better than here."

Ning Santong sighed heavily, and stopped embarrassing Mr. Su, who was pure and pure, "When Cao Wei died, you asked me to verify the cause of his death again, so I opened him up to have a look."

Su Cen: "Didn't Cao Wei die from poisoning?"

"Cao Wei died of poisoning. I found traces of white phosphorus in his pharynx and internal organs." Ning Santong pointed Su Cen to see the faint green fluorescence on Cao Wei's body. Su Cen nodded, and Ning San Tong continued: "I have nothing to do, so I cut Xu Youhuai and Liu Kang open."

Su Cen rolled her eyes back, it's a good time to have nothing to do!

Ning Santong then walked between Xu Youhuai and Liu Kang's corpses: "The two of them don't have the habit of chewing on fingernails like Cao Wei, but because they have been in contact with the painting for a long time, they will inevitably inhale some white phosphorus."

Ning Santong pointed to Xu Youhuai's body, "Just like him, the amount of white phosphorus is very small, but there is."

Then he pointed to another corpse: "But there is nothing on this corpse!"

Su Cen frowned after hearing this, no longer caring about the stench from the corpse, and stepped forward to take a closer look.

Indeed, as Ning Santong said, the fluorescence on Cao Wei's corpse was the strongest, and Xu Youhuai also had it, but the other corpse was clean and there was no trace of white phosphorus.

A bold thought popped up in Su Cen's mind: "Do you suspect... that this corpse does not belong to Liu Kang?"

"I'm not sure either," Ning Santong frowned and shook his head: "Maybe it's because Liu Kang has less exposure to painting?"

Su Cen shook his head and denied, "He won't be burned to death at home if he has less contact."

Ning Santong: "But didn't he set the fire after being stunned first? Could it be the one who drugged him?"

Su Cen frowned and bit his lower lip lightly: "This is what is suspicious. Why was Liu Kang drugged when he died, while Xu Youhuai and Cao Wei were fine? According to the old man in the study, he probably wanted to make trouble It would be good for everyone to know, and he even did not hesitate to kill Xu Youhuai in front of the imperial court, so why did he drug Liu Kang and choose to move him to the yard and secretly burn him to death instead of directly burning him to death in the room?"

"This..." Ning Santong couldn't keep up with Su Cen's train of thought, and scratched his head, "But didn't the old man admit that he drugged Liu Kang?"

"What if... who is he trying to protect?" Su Cen turned and walked out: "How did you determine that the deceased was Liu Kang?"

Ning Santong followed closely behind, "This person's body shape is similar to Liu Kang's. Liu Kangsheng entered the study room of the side courtyard, and many servants saw it, but the body was right in front of Liu Kang's study room, and Liu Kang disappeared again. , normal people would think about Liu Kang, right?"

"That is to say, there is no definite evidence to prove that this is Liu Kang," Su Cen ordered while walking, "Go and bring me all the statements of the servants of the Liu family that day, and call the person who made the statement back then."

Ning Santong nodded in agreement.

It didn't take long for Ning Santong to send the confession to Su Cen's room.People in Dali Temple thought it strange that a case was still being handled near the end of the year, and many people gathered around to watch the excitement, and soon surrounded Su Cen's office.

Su Cen read the confession at a glance, raised his head and asked the clerk who recorded the confession: "Are the statements of everyone in the Liu family here?"

The scribe replied respectfully: "My lord, they are all here."

Su Cen lowered his head and thought for a while, "No, there is another one!"

"When I first arrived outside Liu's house, I bumped into a young man who said he came out to get medicine for his wife." Su Cen raised his head, a sharp cold light flashed in his eyes, "When you made your statements, he probably didn't Hurry back."

Standing outside the door, Xiao Sun, who was watching the excitement, slammed his hand, and hurriedly said: "I also remember that person, he was flustered, and I almost quarreled with him when he bumped into my lord."

Su Cen then asked: "Does Liu Kang's wife, Liu Qinshi, suffer from heart palpitations?"

Ning Santong replied: "She is still calm and composed in front of Liu Kang's corpse, so why is there such a palpitation?"

Su Cen pondered for a while, then stood up abruptly, "Come here, come with me!"

Suburban Bamboo Forest Xiaoxiang Residence

A heavy snowfall lived up to expectations, like goose feathers falling from the endless gloomy sky, covering the bluestone path in front of the door in a short while.

Danqing waited outside the door for a long time before seeing the figure slowly returning from the small road. He breathed a sigh of relief and hurried up with an umbrella: "My lord, where have you been? It's fine if you don't take me with you. Why don't you even take me with you?" Not even an umbrella."

Ning Yugui smiled lightly, "I have dealt with some private matters."

The two of them returned to the bamboo building with umbrellas in hand. Danqing helped people brush off the snow on their bodies, then hurriedly found a hand stove and put it in the person's hand, complaining: "You don't pay attention to the cold disease left over from that year, you have to snow heavily If you run outside every day, what should you do if you catch the wind and cold again?"

Shen Yugui grabbed Danqing's wrist and said suddenly, "Danqing, let's go."

Danqing was slightly taken aback, and looked at the person in front of him in disbelief: "Let's go? Where are you going?"

"Where do you want to go?" Shen Yugui smiled, "They all say that the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is picturesque, why don't we go to the south of the Yangtze River?"

"Young Master, Young Master?" Danqing was stunned for a while and didn't come back to his senses.

"You don't have to call me son anymore." It was the first time in these years that Danqing saw such a look in Shen Yugui's eyes, and he only heard him continue: "You have also taken care of me for so many years. Can you take care of me?"

Shen Yugui's pale face was rarely blush, and he whispered, "But I don't know anything, I'm afraid you have to teach me."

"Grand, lord... small..." Danqing was so excited that he didn't know how to speak, and he hesitated for a while before saying: "Yu... Yugui."

Shen Yugui lowered her head and bit her lips. Over the years, she had a mission. She was the painter of Xiaoxiangju, and Li Yunxi. In addition to painting, she was painting on weekdays, day and night, and did not wait for a day's rest.Now that the heavy burden has finally been relieved, someone can finally call her "Yugui."

When the son returns home, it is suitable for his family.She finally did it.

"Then... Yugui, when are we leaving?" Dan Qing asked eagerly, pulling Shen Yugui's wrist.

Shen Yugui withdrew his hand embarrassingly, "There are still a lot of days in the future, what's the rush. Why wait until the heavy snow stops."

Danqing jumped up excitedly, "Then I'll pack my luggage!"

Shen Yugui couldn't help but chuckle as he watched Danqing run up the stairs in a few steps.At the beginning, I really should have thanked Mr. Su, but it was a pity that I was rushing to die with all my heart at that time. When I learned that Mr. Su had concealed the truth for her, I was more shocked than pleasantly surprised, and I didn't recover for a while.

However, that kind of dragon and phoenix character is naturally cherished by others, and she prays for him to have a smooth life.

Ning Yugui waited downstairs for a long time but didn't see Dan Qing coming down, he thought to himself how many things this man had to pack up and take away.He followed him upstairs, and just as he landed, suddenly a black shadow came up from behind, and Shen Yugui's neck felt cold.

"Don't move." A low voice came from behind slowly.

Before Shen Yu Guishang could react, he felt his legs go limp when he saw the situation in front of him clearly, and he almost fell down the stairs.

One foot in front of her, Dan Qing was lying on the ground, the blood under her body was slowly spreading, and it was about to overflow to her feet.

The black figure slowly came out of the shadows, a dagger rested on Shen Yugui's neck, his eyes narrowed sullenly: "Tell me, where is "Hou Yi Fu Ri Tu" hidden?"

Shen Yugui couldn't hear any sound for a long time, his eyes were fixed on the bright red spot on the ground, tears streaming down his eyes.

The man smiled coldly, pulled up one of Shen Yugui's slender wrists, aimed at the tendon in his hand and picked it up with a knife, and a miserable scream lasted for a long time in the bamboo building.

"I didn't know that such a little bastard like you was left behind," the man raised his hand to swipe the blood on the blade of the twister, "I have plenty of time now, so I can teach you what life, no, such, and death are!"