Queen's Detective

"Fifteen weeping in the spring breeze, swinging on the backside."

The setting sun in the morning diffused over the pen holder by the bed, and there was a glimmer of light on the pen tip of the wolf hair.The breeze slowly brings a bit of coolness, and it also shakes the page of rice paper pressed down by the ruler.Yan Sanbai stood in front of the desk, and whispered the poem.

This is the green bamboo courtyard where Brother Ying lives. The owner has disappeared, but these unexpected guests are ushered in.

"How is it? Do you see anything?" Chu Yunlou asked nervously.

Yan Sanbai picked up the rice paper and looked at it in the sunlight, and asked, "Is he the only one living here?"

"Yes. Brother Ying cut off contact with his family very early on. He is usually the only one in this Green Bamboo Courtyard. Apart from our few friends, basically no one will come here."

"That is to say, no one has seen him since we parted last night?"

"I asked all the way, but no one has seen it."

"Brother Ying probably didn't come back last night." Li Yan brushed the books on the bookshelf with his fingertips, pulled out a book, and said, "All the books here are neatly arranged, only this one is tilted, like It was pulled out and put in again, which is not the habit of Brother Ying. I think that piece of rice paper should be pulled out from this book, right?"

With that said, Li Yan looked at Yan Sanbai.Yan Sanbai nodded, "As you said, this line of poems is indeed written by Brother Ying, but judging from the age of the paper and the depth of the ink, this line of poems should have been written for several years. No one has touched the bed, but there are traces of outsiders looking for it on the bookshelf. It can be seen that the person who was here last night was not Brother Ying, but someone related to Brother Ying's disappearance. This piece of paper was placed on purpose by him. Show us."

"On purpose?" Chu Yunlou frowned deeply.

"Could it be kidnapping and extortion?" Xie Xiaotang exclaimed, and then became suspicious again, "But brother Ying has no money?"

"Stupid." Li Yan rolled up the book and tapped her head lightly, "Uncle Chu is rich, so am I rich too?"

Xie Xiaotang rubbed his head, "Oh, then this person is really bad!"

"Maybe he's taken a fancy to Brother Ying's beauty?" Ling Ding interjected again.

Beauty?Xie Xiaotang opened his mouth wide, then glanced worriedly at his cousin, then at Yan Sanbai.Chu Yunlou's face was darkened, his lips were pursed, and there was a storm in his eyes.

Yan Sanbai saw it, and said: "Brother Chu, don't worry so much, the prisoner is obviously targeting one of us, not Yinggeer, Yinggeer is just a bait, so after we found him His life should not have been in danger before."

"But the question is where can we find it now?" Li Yan said.

"All the reminders are on the poem. When you see it, do you think of anything?" Yan Sanbai put the rice paper on the table again, and several people gathered around, thinking hard one by one.

"Looking in the mirror secretly at the age of eight, I can draw my long eyebrows. I went outing at the age of ten, and the lotus was my skirt. I learned to play the zither at twelve, and my silver armor never took off. I was weeping at the spring breeze at fifteen, and I was swinging on the back. The whole poem is like this. You know Yingying Why did you write this last line?" Yan Sanbai asked while thinking.Inexplicably, he felt that this poem was very suitable for Ying Geer, and Ying Geer wrote the last line and put it in the book, so it must have some meaning.

This meaning may be the answer to the mystery of this level.

Sure enough, Li Yan frowned secretly, and said: "This poem fits well with Brother Ying. When he was young, he was often dressed as a daughter, but when he grew up, he couldn't do it anymore. He also likes female skills such as playing the zither and embroidery. He has always been different from his family. Mu. Just this last sentence... 15 years old?"

Li Yan looked at Chu Yunlou. Although he was familiar with Brother Ying, he couldn't compare to Uncle Chu who got along day and night.Chu Yunlou seemed to have thought of something, his face became more serious, but his eyes lit up, "Come with me!"

After about a stick of incense, the group arrived at the other courtyard of the Chu family near the Huashen Temple.

The servants who were sweeping at the door saw their young master coming, and hurriedly greeted them, but who knew that the young master was like a gust of wind, he ignored them and blew in, so fast that no one had time to blink.

"Huh..." Chu Yunlou panted, looking around anxiously on a large grassy field. 15 years old, swing, that's all he can think of.

Suddenly, the look in his eyes must be - it's that swing!

"We used to play Cuju here when we were young." Later, Li Yan explained to Yan Sanbai.When Chu Yunlou brought them here, he vaguely remembered some previous episodes, yes, Cuju.The few of them gathered together were the king of children by the Qinhuai River, so not only were they here at that time, many children liked to come here, and it was very lively every day.

But the early summer of that year passed, and they stopped coming here.The reason is already very vague, but now that I think about it, I still have some impression - it's Brother Ying.He suddenly didn't want to come. Although everyone didn't know what to do, they all accommodated him, so they didn't come anymore. Anyway, there would be other places to play.

Chu Yunlou stared fixedly at the blue hairband fluttering in the wind on the swing frame covered with wisteria, still anxious in his heart.The headband is here, but what about the people?

"This is the hairband that Brother Ying tied up when she was wearing female makeup yesterday." Yan Sanbai also recognized it at a glance, untied it, and stroked it carefully.At this time, Chu Yunlou had already loudly called all the people in the village to interrogate them one by one, and ordered them to search every place here carefully.

However, the result was disappointing. There was nothing in this house.

"It seems that this is a chain link." Yan Sanbai said, raising his eyes and asking: "Do you know Qiushui?"

"Qiu Shui? What is that?" Chu Yunlou didn't know, so Li Yan also said he didn't know. As for Xie Xiaotang and Ling Ding, they didn't know.

Yan Sanbai supported his forehead, "There is Qiushui written on the plaque at the gate of Zhuangzi, haven't you seen it? Brother Chu, you don't know?"

The rest: "..."

Brother Chu: "..."

Forget it, Yan Sanbai didn't play tricks with them, "This Zhuangzi's name is Qiushui, and I just smelled a kind of fragrance on this hairband. This kind of fragrance is originally from the Western Regions, but after several improvements, The fragrance is getting more and more elegant, so it is very popular in the south of the Yangtze River, and its name is Qiushui."

Li Yan instantly understood what he meant, and said, "But Brother Ying shouldn't smoke this kind of incense. He has always loved green bamboo, so the incense he uses is called Xiangfei."

"You mean 'Autumn Water' is a clue?" Of course Chu Yunlou is not stupid, "But since you said that this incense is very popular in the south of the Yangtze River, if we want to find someone, isn't it a needle in a haystack?"

Yan Sanbai shook his head, "No. The fragrance is too extensive to constitute a clue. Instead, it could be a person's name, or the name of a painting boat."

"I'll send someone to look for it right away." Chu Yunlou couldn't wait for a moment, turned around and left.

Xie Xiaotang was also in a hurry to help, and when he went home to move the rescuers, Li Yan asked Ling Ding to accompany her, so as not to cause any accidents to her.

But even with the joint efforts of Chu and Xie, Yan Sanbai was still not at ease.

Why did the prisoner take away Brother Ying and leave behind this series of puzzles?Who is he targeting?

"Could it be related to the previous few incidents?" Li Yan also had this question. As soon as they came, something happened to Brother Ying, which is not a good sign.

"It's not yet conclusive, maybe we can find out if we find Brother Ying."

At this moment, the two of them were walking side by side in the street, neither of them covered their faces, and they were stared at by the people passing by.Originally, Yan Sanbai was recognized unexpectedly, anyway, few people really knew him, so he thought about it all the way and didn't care.But he forgot that the King of Luoyang beside him was like a shining lamp no matter where he went, exuding the domineering aura that no one in the world knows the king all the time.

So he walked, still wondering why when there were more and more people around, Li Yan who was beside him suddenly took his hand, "Go!"

Leaping onto the roof next to him, pointing his toes, Yan Sanbai and Sha Mo reacted with internal strength, and the two of them landed gracefully on the black tiles of the roof, in exchange for the amazement and envy of the onlookers, "Wow ~~~~"

Li Yan glanced down and said, "Let's go, let's go to Ziying for help."

Wu Ziying is supervising work in his own shipyard. Although he always looks like a nobleman, he can do what ordinary boatmen would do.When he first heard the news that Brother Ying had disappeared, he was so excited that he almost threw the saw in Li Yan's face.

Li Yan picked up the saw and looked at him with a smile, "Are you itchy?"

Wu Ziying hurriedly dodged and hid behind Yan Sanbai, poked her head out, and said, "Brother Ying! Brother Ying's matter is important! Brother Qinghe!"

"Then you still haven't sent someone to look for it?"

"Go! Go now!"

Wu Ziying left in a hurry, Wu's family took the water route, and they knew the things in the Qinhuai River best.

Li Yan and Yan Sanbai followed Wu Ziying in one of the boats and searched along the river.However, because you have to stop and ask when you encounter a boat, the process is very slow.

Yan Sanbai stood at the bow of the boat all the time, looked up at the sunlight and calculated the time, and couldn't help frowning slightly - generally speaking, when encountering such a thing, time is a problem.

Now that the level is set, it will not be without time limit.

But in such a huge Yingtian Mansion, it would be a waste of time to search for it like this.

time.time.time.

These two words kept flashing in Yan Sanbai's mind, and his eyes couldn't help falling on the man who went to the nearby ship to ask questions.He turned back and shook his head and shrugged, again to no avail.

Wu Ziying had no choice but to wave his hand to let the boat continue to sail, but at this moment, Yan Sanbai's eyes were attracted by the action of an old boatman on the next boat tying the rope.

Looping, passing through, looping again, and knotting... Complicated, but crisp and neat, this is a special knotting method that belongs to the boatman.

correct!Knot!

Yan Sanbai turned around, found the same knotted place on the boat, quickly unraveled it, and tied it again—as expected.

"Brother Wu!" Yan Sanbai turned his head, "Can you notify Uncle Chu as quickly as possible to change the search area to all rivers?"

"Of course it's okay, wrap it on me!" Wu Ziying was very straightforward, put two fingers in her mouth and whistled, and someone nearby looked over immediately.Wu Ziying immediately raised his hands and made a gesture, the man nodded, took out something from his bosom, lit it, and with a sound of '咻——', it turned into a loud arrow with white smoke and flew into the sky.

But after a while, a loud arrow rose from the river in the distance, followed by the third and fourth arrows. The arrows passed all the way along the Qinhuai River, and curious people poked their heads out of the boat one after another—huh?Isn't this the Lianzhu arrow from the Wu family?What happened again?

Chu Yunlou, who was leading people around the streets and alleys, saw the signal, his eyes narrowed, and he made a decisive decision, "Everyone go to the river!"

As for Xie's house, Xie Xiaotang asked stupidly if something happened to Wu's house too, but Ling Ding rolled his eyes cleverly, "Miss, let's change to the river immediately."

On this side, people from all directions turned out from the streets, on the other side, Wu Ziying approached Yan Sanbai and asked, "Why did you suddenly narrow the range?"

Yan Sanbai said: "That blue hairband was tied to the swing by your boatman's method."

"I see."

The scope narrowed, and the search finally sped up a lot.And just as the sun crossed the highest position, Chu Yunlou finally sent someone to send the news—Qiu Shui was found.The other party was an inconspicuous maidservant on a small painting boat. She had just arrived in Yingtian Mansion not long ago, so it was troublesome to find out.

Yan Sanbai, Li Yan and Wu Ziying rushed to the small boat, thinking that this level has been passed smoothly, but they didn't expect that the real difficulty has just begun.

The woman named Qiushui was stabbed above the waist and abdomen by a dagger, her mouth, hands and feet were sealed, and she lay dying on the bed in her own room. Rest, unnoticed.If Chu Yunlou had found her a moment later, she might have disappeared without a trace.

The bright red blood soaked the bedding and dripped along the edge of the bed, ticking, ticking, flowing more and more.

Yan Sanbai knew that it was the time given by the prisoner.

The doctor was called as quickly as possible, and Yan Sanbai was afraid of making mistakes, so he gave Qiushui a medicine from Yaowanggu.However, when the dying woman saw him, she suddenly opened her eyes wide in horror, panting violently, and stretched out her bloody hand desperately towards him.

The rest were taken aback, Li Yan immediately stretched out his hand and pulled Yan Sanbai behind him, but Yan Sanbai shook his head, pushed his hand away and approached Qiushui, allowing her to grab his clothes.

Yan Sanbai grabbed her hand, and warm strength was transmitted from the palm, "Don't be nervous, what do you want to say? I'm listening."

"Boom...boom..." Qiu Shui cried, holding him back weakly, opened her mouth, but only uttered syllables with unknown meaning, but she seemed to hope that Yan Sanbai could understand, and looked at him full of prayers.

"The fish landed, it landed... landed..."

Qiu Shui's voice gradually died down, and most of her body was already lying in a pool of blood, but she still gritted her teeth and persisted, because she was so forceful that she even had a hideous face, and people who watched were sweating.

"Boom, boom...boom...boom...boom..."

Boom, boom, like the drumbeat of life, it beats on people's hearts, and whose life is it urging?