Queen's Detective

"Oh." The boy looked at the debris on the floor, and pulled his hair angrily, "What should I do?"

Yan Sanbai hurriedly got off the horse, took a closer look, only to find that the earthen pot contained some medicine, which had already survived, and now the medicine juice and herbs had been spilled all over the ground, and it seemed that it was useless.

Yan Sanbai hurriedly said apologetically: "Little brother, I'm really sorry, it was my horse that surprised you, what kind of herbs are these, I will pay you a share."

The boy looked up at him, stunned, and muttered, "Why is there another..."

Muttering, he waved his hand again, "This is the medicine boiled for my mother. The local recipes are all herbs collected from the mountains. Where can you get them, you delicate son? Come on, I'll go and pick another one myself. .

Yan Sanbai was even more embarrassed when he said this, "Well, here is a bottle of medicine, which is Yaowanggu's Zhengqi Pill, no matter what the disease is, it has the effect of strengthening the foundation and strengthening the vitality, just take it , as my apology."

The young man had never been out of Qu County in his life, so he didn't know how much this bottle of medicine was worth, so he immediately showed a skeptical look.Both Zhang Yan and Ling Ding's expressions changed, that was Medicine King Valley, the medicine in Medicine King Valley was hard to find, but Yan Sanbai gave it away so simply, if the young man took it out and sold it , will be able to eat and wear for several years.

The young man is also a clever man. At first he wondered how much the medicine was worth, but after seeing Ling Ding and Zhang Yan's reactions, he immediately knew that the medicine was worth a lot of money. .

But after taking a step, he turned around again, "For the sake of the medicine, I would like to advise you, don't come to Daqing Township to show off if you are so good-looking. If you are kidnapped by the fox demon, don't blame me in advance." Didn't remind you."

After that, he walked away with the bottle of medicine in his mouth, and asked suspiciously: "Why did you get involved with the fox again? It became a case of a fox kidnapping?"

Zhang Yan also shook his head with half-knowledge, "There was nothing wrong with the fox demon when I left, and they all said it was the fault of the box." "That's the fault of the fox demon's box." Ling Ding concluded.

Zhang Yan thinks it makes sense, "It's really not necessarily true."

Ling Ding pursed his lips, "But it's not so scary when the fox demon is involved in this matter."

No matter what, whether it is a fox demon or a box, you have to see it with your own eyes to know.Zhang Yan immediately took them to find Guan Qingci. Guan Qingci and the people from Dali Temple lived in an empty house in the village, and they arrived after a short walk. "My lord! Lord Yan is here!" Zhang Yan shouted before entering the door, but when he opened the door and entered, he found that the atmosphere inside was slightly wrong.

A subordinate of Dali Temple saw the three of them and ran over quickly, "Master Zhang, you are back, something has happened!" "What's going on?" Zhang Yan couldn't help frowning, "Where is your lord?" "My lord just walked away. You came on the back foot, and another person died in the village, and the adults are rushing over to see." "What? Someone died again?!" Zhang Yan was surprised, "Didn't the box be put away by the adults?" "Hey, no Well, the box was fine in the adults’ room, but the night before yesterday, a demon suddenly got in the way, and the box disappeared! We searched for two days but couldn’t find it, and another person died today!” “The box appeared again Already?" Ling Ding quickly asked.

The man shook his head, "I don't know yet." "Let's go, let's go too." Yan Sanbai made a decisive decision and told the man to lead the way.

This time, the crime took place at the ancestral hall in the village. The ancestral hall is the oldest house in the village. You can see the vicissitudes of life just from the outside.But the villagers of Daqing Township should come to repair it from time to time, so the ancestral hall still looks very strong.

It was only a stick of incense before the body was found, and when Yan Sanbai went to Guan Qingci's residence, news of the dead man had spread in the village. At this time, many people in the village gathered in the ancestral hall, crowded A large piece. "Give way, please make way!" The door was blocked, Zhang Yan spent a lot of effort to 'kill' a way out, and ran to Guan Qingci's side panting, "My lord, Lord Yan is here. "

Guan Qingci was looking up at the beam in the main hall of the ancestral hall at this time. The corpse just now was hanging on this beam.Seeing that Zhang Yan finally left and returned, Guan Qingci's frosty face did not ease in the slightest. When he turned his head, he saw Yan Sanbai alone in the courtyard outside the main hall. The ancestral hall was full of people, and there was no A person stood by his side.

Yan Sanbai looked left and right, suddenly felt strange, and was about to step into the main hall to observe the scene, a gray-haired old man suddenly stood up, with a dragon's head and a cane on the ground, "Stop! You can't go in."

Yan Sanbai was taken aback, "This old man, dare to ask why?"

The old man looked at him, "No reason, you just can't enter."

Zhang Yan was puzzled immediately, how could he not let in the person he finally invited back?How can we investigate the case if we don't enter? "This old man, this is the famous Lord Tan Yan, he is here to help you investigate the case, how can you..." But in the middle of the sentence, Guan Qingci interrupted him, "Don't waste your words, they I don’t know any detectives at all.”

Saying that, Guan Qingci glanced around, saw the censer on the table behind, strode forward, stretched out his hand to get a little dust on it, and then walked up to Yan Sanbai, with the same knife-like eyebrows and eyes, which he hadn't seen for many days, Even more aggressive. "Offended." After saying that, he did not hesitate, and wiped the incense ash on Yan Sanbai's face.A good young man with red lips and white teeth suddenly turned into a big gray face.

Before everyone could react, he turned his head to look at the old man again, "Clan elder, is this possible?"

Yan Sanbai was also a little dazed for a moment, anyone would be dazed by being painted so well.But the other party was Guan Qingci, Yan Sanbai believed that he would not do this for no reason, so he changed his mind, looked at the reactions of the people around him, and then remembered what the young man said just now, a guess suddenly arose in his heart.

At this time, the old man whom Guan Qing called as the elder of the clan frowned and looked at Yan Sanbai for a few times, as if he didn't want to make too much trouble with the government, so he nodded and agreed, "Okay, let's go in .”

Sure enough, the problem was on his own face, Yan Sanbai thought so.

Just now the young man reminded him to be careful not to be taken away by the fox demon because he thought he was... so good-looking, and now the clan elders don't let him enter the ancestral hall, probably for the same reason.Yan Sanbai can almost imagine the way this clan elder thinks—because Yan Sanbai may be spotted by the fox demon and taken away. In short, those who are related to the fox demon cannot enter the ancestral hall. , is the most important and least desecrated place in the clan.

But Guan Qingci painted Yan Sanbai's face with gray, a plain Yan Sanbai naturally couldn't attract the fox demon's attention, so the clan elder also took a step back.

Guan Qingci didn't explain, but when he saw Yan Sanbai looking over, he seemed to have understood. The two nodded at each other and didn't say anything more about it.It's just that Guan Qingci couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, having Yan Sanbai to investigate the case would really save a lot of trouble.

So Yan Sanbai entered the main hall with a gray face like this. The man who hanged himself was lying in the middle of the main hall, covered by a white cloth. "The deceased's name is Zhang Qing, twenty-two, a native of Daqing Township. The cause of death was the same as the previous one. He committed suicide by hanging himself. There were no other injuries on his body, and there was no sign of poisoning." Guan Qingci said on the sidelines. Before Sanbai came, he had already checked almost everything.

Hearing this, Yan Sanbai checked the temperature of the corpse, "It should have been more than an hour since he died, who was the first to find him?"

Guan Qing resigned and turned his head to wink at his subordinates, and someone was brought up immediately, it was a middle-aged woman, she looked like a village woman, she was dressed in coarse clothes, and there was a little panic in her eyes, "My lord, it is my first One saw it." "Did he hang on the beam when you came?" Yan Sanbai asked. "Back to my lord, it's my turn to clean the ancestral hall today. I just came in to clean it as usual. I didn't know that Zhang Qing, a dead man, would be hanged here, my lord..." "You don't have to panic, it's just a routine, let's find out It's just the situation." Yan Sanbai quickly comforted her and told her to go down first.

He looked at Guan Qingci again, "Where is the box? Has it appeared?"

Guan Qingci was silent, and looked at the desk where he took the incense ashes just now.There are about a dozen memorial tablets on the plan table, which looks even spectacular, and an incense burner is enshrined in front of the memorial tablet. Now, between the incense burner and the memorial tablet, there is a black box impressively!

Yan Sanbai's eyes froze, he walked over, and stretched out his hand to the box.

The villagers behind him couldn't help but focus their eyes on his hand, muttering that there was another bold one, and many people expressed concern about it.That box is really evil, maybe they just touched the box casually, which caused this disaster.

And just when everyone was thinking wildly, Yan Sanbai had already grabbed the black box, picked it up calmly, opened it, and the box was empty. "It was the same when I got it that day." Guan Qing resigned. He was the only one who was bold here. He had put this box next to his pillow and slept for countless nights. "Are you sure it's the previous one?" "Sure."

Yan Sanbai looked thoughtfully at the box.The box is made of nanmu. It looks average in texture, and its age...about ten years or more. The workmanship is not very exquisite, but it can be seen that the person who made it put a lot of effort into it, because the pattern on the box obviously has been modified several times before it is finalized. Finish.

But no matter how you look at it, this is a very ordinary box.

Yan Sanbai took a closer look at the ancestral hall, but found nothing unusual.The clan elder urged them to leave quickly so as not to disturb their ancestors, so they first returned to the empty house where they lived in the Dali Temple. "When I came that day, there were rumors in the village that the box could swallow a person's soul. If a person lacks the seven souls and six souls, he will lose his mind and commit suicide."

Guan Qingci and Yan Sanbai sat under the big locust tree in the courtyard, telling him what happened these days.

Yan Sanbai actually couldn't figure out one thing, "Who is the person reporting to the official?"

If the people in the village firmly believe in these strange things, then it is absolutely impossible for them to report to the police because the murderer was not human at all.In their view, that person should have committed suicide.

But this incident finally alarmed Dali Temple, which is very strange.

Guan Qingci knew that Yan Sanbai would ask this question, so he was prepared, and said, "It's the magistrate of Qu County, Cai Jiahe. I checked him, and he was a Jinshi in the third year of Yuansheng. Although he lives in the county seat now, But the ancestral home is in this Daqing Township, and the house we are in now is his old house."