Beauty is sick

This person was dressed in a dark long gown, calm and composed, with an extraordinary bearing, as soon as he appeared, Pei Zhe and Jin Lingjiu, who were making jokes, stopped joking.

Pei Zhe looked at the visitor calmly: "Mr. is the shopkeeper of the "Thirteenth Bureau" incense shop? "

"I'm not." The man smiled slightly, "Take care of the shop for a friend temporarily, but you two want to buy incense?"

Pei Zhe scanned the shop, and his eyes stopped on the door leading to the inner room, where there was a thick curtain, which tightly covered the inside.

Jin Lingjiu turned sideways slightly, standing in front of Pei Zhe: "Yes, take a look first, please take out all the good incense sold in the shop."

He took out his money bag and slapped it on the counter: "There is also the fragrance of plum blossoms."

Surprise appeared on the man's face, but he quickly reacted and said with a smile: "Wait a minute, I'll go to the warehouse to get the incense you want."

After he left, Jin Lingjiu suddenly restrained his expression, and pulled Pei Zheqian to his side: "There is a problem."

Pei Zhe was still thinking about what happened when he took out the money bag just now, and when he heard this, he subconsciously grabbed Jin Lingjiu's sleeve: "What's going on?"

There was no one else in the incense shop, and the two of them walked slowly, walking to the corner of the counter, as if strolling in a garden, leisurely and contented.

Jin Ling shook his hand nine times, looked around casually, and said in a low voice, "There is a smell of blood."

Just as Pei Zhe was about to ask again, at this moment, the sound of footsteps approached slowly, and the man just came out with a tray full of balm and powder.

Pei Zhe and Jin Lingjiu quickly exchanged glances and stopped talking.

The man smiled warmly, and took out the ointments and powders from the tray one by one: "This is the incense that the two young masters want. The one on the left sells better, and the one on the right has the fragrance of plum blossoms. You can take a look." .”

Jin Lingjiu frowned inexplicably, picked up a box of balm on the right: "Did you just make it?"

The man shook his head: "I made it at the beginning of last year. Now there are no fresh plum blossoms, and the aroma of dried flowers cannot achieve the best effect."

Jin Lingjiu said "hmm", "Let's see for ourselves."

The man responded with a smile, walked to the counter and sat down, leaving them a separate space.

Jin Lingjiu took Pei Zhe's hand, put one of the boxes of face powder into his palm, and raised his eyebrows: "Smell it to see if it smells to your liking."

Pei Zhe didn't ask any further questions, and stretched out his hand following his words. After smelling it, he dipped a little bit with his fingertips, and leaned in front of him: "I think the taste is okay, what do you think?"

"Absolutely." Jin Lingjiu leaned over and pinned the hair hanging down his ears, "If you want it, we'll buy it."

In front of the man, the two of them rubbed each other's ears, and there was no intention of covering it up. Anyone could see that the relationship between the two of them was unusual.

There were a lot of masculine people at that time, Pei Zhe and Jin Lingjiu were outstanding in appearance, the two behaved intimately, the man was shocked for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure and looked away from the two of them.

Jin Lingjiu and Pei Zhe leaned against each other, and through the cover of Pei Zhe's body, they watched the man secretly. Seeing that he hadn't looked over, they turned their heads, pressed against Pei Zhe's ear, and said in a breathy voice, "Know martial arts."

Pei Zhe put one hand on his neck, and almost fell into Jinling Jiu's arms: "Then buy it, but I want to try the rest, let's decide whether to buy it or not after watching it."

Not shying away from men, the two discussed various balms and powders in an open and honest manner. Pei Zhe commented casually and demoted all the powders and balms.

"This is not good, it smells too greasy."

"This is giving me a headache."

"The color of this one is not good, and the box is too ugly."

"Well, looking at each one, they are not as good as the things in the incense shop in Xiaoxiang. You can buy them for fun, but you can't use them frequently. They have a low-level smell of the countryside."

The smile on the man's face faded, and he looked up at the two of them, seeming a little impatient, but he didn't interrupt.

Jin Lingjiu slapped the counter with a slap: "I just bought it for you to play with, and you won't be able to put it on the counter. If you like Xiaoxiang's, let's go there in the afternoon."

Pei Zhe was overjoyed, and threw himself into Jinling Jiu's arms, and kissed him on the face: "Brother Jiu, you are so kind to me!"

Jin Lingjiu was stunned for a moment before realizing it, and exerted some force on the hand around Pei Zhe's waist, pressing him tightly into his arms, against his body: "Jiaojiao, follow brother obediently, brother will take you to fame I drink spicy ones."

After the two of them kissed each other, they left the incense shop swaggeringly.

The man was stunned for a while, maybe he didn't expect that after the two people lost a lot, they said they would not buy it, and they didn't react until they completely left his sight.

He stood up without saying a word, put all kinds of balm and powder into the tray, opened the heavy curtain, and walked into the room.

Behind the curtain, the fragrance became more and more intense. The man walked slowly, his shoes stepped on the ground, making a sticky sound, and incomplete footprints slowly appeared under his feet.

A series of crimson footprints lead to the inside of the incense shop.

After leaving the incense shop, Pei Zhe and Jin Lingjiu immediately went to another street.

Pei Zhe squeezed his hand: "Is anyone following?"

"No." Jin Lingjiu rubbed his ear, and suddenly smiled, "I guess no one would think of following us just now, eh, Jiaojiao?"

Pei Zhe recalled what happened just now, couldn't hold back anymore, and laughed: "When you slapped the money bag on the table, I wanted to laugh, our ninth son is rich and powerful, like an ignorant dude .”

Without hesitation, Jin Lingjiu corrected, "It's not that I don't have knowledge and skills, but I'm obsessed with beauty, and I was attracted by a vixen."

Pei Zhe: "..."

Don't think I can't hear what you're implying.

Jin Lingjiu looked at his unkind expression, showing no sign of restraint, and clicked his tongue: "He's still a beautiful vixen, the most beautiful fox in the world."

Pei Zhe choked, and hit him with a fan angrily: "Can't you forget about the most beautiful man in the world?"

"Why did you forget?" Jin Lingjiu glanced at him, and said in a haughty tone, "I think my Pei Lang is the most beautiful in the world, no matter if he is a vixen or a human being."

Pei Zhe hurriedly cupped his hands: "Please forgive me, brother, with you here, how dare I be called the most beautiful in the world?"

Jinling Jiuyi said: "When we first met, I didn't know who was the most beautiful man in the world who opened his mouth and kept his mouth shut. How come he is so humble now?"

Pei Zhe laughed softly, and frivolously touched Jin Lingjiu's face: "I'm close to the vermilion, the red is close to the black, and the black is the black. I learned a lot from the resourceful and resourceful Mr. Jiu, especially self-knowledge."

The two turned around and turned back to the street where the incense shop was located.

Jin Lingjiu took Pei Zhe's fan: "It's a mistake."

Pei Zhe was puzzled: "What?"

Jinling Jiu said slowly: "It's not that those who are close to vermilion are red and those who are close to ink are black, but that those who marry chickens follow chickens and dogs follow dogs."

Pei Zhe: "..."

Jin Lingjiu raised his chin: "Pei Jiaojiao will naturally marry me and follow me."

Pei Zhe felt that he was not his opponent, and waved his hand: "Nowadays, I can't say that you are the ninth son, and I don't know who you learned your eloquence from."

Jin Lingjiu: "I didn't learn it."

"What's going on?" Pei Zhe answered subconsciously, raised his eyes and met Jin Lingjiu's gaze, with a faint feeling of bad premonition, "Needless to say, I'm not fine at all——"

Jin Lingjiu interrupted him resolutely: "Pei Lang is well-educated and famous all over the world. He should have heard a saying in the market--the relationship between husband and wife. My eloquence is all learned by my ears and eyes. I kissed it from my Jiaojiao. "

Pei Zhe: "..."

He knows it!

Pei Zhe remained silent, with a complicated expression on his face.

Jin Lingjiu couldn't help laughing: "Have you recovered yet?"

Pei Zhe sighed faintly: "You suddenly become so... Sigh, I'm not used to it."

The former Jin Lingjiu didn't know how to say such words, he had goosebumps all over his body when he heard it, and he felt a very strange feeling in his heart, and he panicked.

Jinling's nine eyes lit up with a smile: "You don't need to get used to it, it was just teasing you, it won't be like this in the future."

Seeing that he had returned to normal, Pei Zhe breathed a sigh of relief: "Where did you learn those nonsense words?"

Jin Lingjiu didn't hide anything, and told the whole story: "I heard it from Mu Jiao and Zuo Ping. These two people used to get together to read scripts for a while. I'm bored. They were afraid that I would be bored, so they took the initiative to tell me these things. , I hope it will interest me, I have listened too much, remembered some, and learned a few words.”

Pei Zhe thought about it and didn't think of such a reason, so he said helplessly: "Then you should listen less to the two of them in the future."

He paused, and added: "Ninth brother is not boring, I like you like this. When I have time in the future, I will take you to play, and I will definitely not let you be bored."

Jin Lingjiu readily agreed: "Then I will trouble Pei Lang."

The two lingered near the incense shop, hesitating whether to intervene.

Pei Zhe pondered for a moment, then asked: "That man knows martial arts, and he smells like blood, right?"

Jin Lingjiu said "hmm": "I smell blood coming from inside the incense shop. The man's body is relatively heavy. His walking posture and the movement of holding the tray all look like a Lianjiazi."

Pei Zhe frowned: "I smelled all the powders and ointments he took out, and there was nothing wrong with the ones that smelled of plum blossoms. In addition, you asked him when one of the ointments was made, and his answer It doesn't seem like he doesn't understand incense at all, I personally think that he should be related to the incense shop, maybe he is really a friend of the shopkeeper of the incense shop, maybe he works here, it is absolutely impossible for him to be unrelated, what do you think?"

Jin Lingjiu nodded: "I think the same as you. If this person is indeed related to the incense shop, then the Thirteenth Bureau's incense shop should not be a simple incense shop. There may be other secrets hidden in it."

Pei Zhe continued: "One more thing, he should not be the shopkeeper of the incense shop. We picked all the balm and powder in the shop at that time. He must have heard it, but he has been indifferent. If it is the shopkeeper of the incense shop, he must won't sit still."

"Indeed." Jin Lingjiu agreed, "When we were in Yecheng, the shopkeeper of the incense shop enthusiastically recommended all kinds of incense to us. Without retention, there are only two possibilities for this situation, the first is what we just said, and the second point..."

Pei Zhe frowned, and said in a deep voice, "He's busy doing something!"

Their eyes met, and they both saw the meaning in each other's eyes.

Jin Lingjiu pursed his lips: "The strong smell of incense powder covers the bloody smell. You didn't smell it, which means that the bloody smell is not too heavy. That person may not be dead yet. How about it? Do you want to take a look?"

Pei Zhe made a quick decision: "Let's go!"

Jin Lingjiu knew what he would say, and immediately pulled someone into the side alley: "The poison on my body has not been cured. If he finds out, he may have to ask Pei Lang to save my life."

Pei Zhe patted his chest, and said very responsibly, "Don't worry, I will bring you out safely."

Jinling Jiu smiled: "As expected of my Pei Lang, he is so confident."

Pei Zhe was pleased by the word "my family", and smiled lightly: "If you can't make you safe, the worst thing is that you and I die in love. I will accompany you no matter what."

Jin Lingjiu was stunned for a moment, then scoffed, "Don't talk nonsense, nothing will happen."

The incense shop is connected by two houses, with a direct opening in the middle. It looks like one from the door, but from the roof, the layout is completely different from that of the nearby houses.

Pei Zhe looked around and suddenly smiled: "Do we look like thieves with brain problems? There are so many people in broad daylight, but anyone who takes a look at the roof can spot us."

Jin Lingjiu pulled him back and walked back: "If you don't want to be regarded as a thief, you should lower your body. I have observed that the height of the roof is not bad. As long as you don't stand up straight, you won't be able to see us on the street in front of the incense shop." .”

This act was very sneaky. Pei Zhe had never seen Jin Lingjiu do such a thing, so he couldn't help teasing him: "What about the back, there is no roof behind us to block us, will the people on that street see it?"

Jin Lingjiu glanced at him indifferently: "Want to be discovered?"

Pei Zhe didn't answer, and smiled meaningfully: "I just feel that this scene is a bit familiar, and there are two words that have been lingering in my mind."

Jinling Jiu: "Oh."

The topic fell to the ground again, Pei Zheyang said: "...you should at least ask me which two words it is, otherwise I have laid so many groundwork and have nowhere to go, it would be too embarrassing."

Jin Lingjiu's eyes were full of helplessness, as if coaxing a child, she said in a doting tone, "Which two words?"

Pei Zhe lay next to his ear, deliberately biting those two words lightly and ambiguously: "Cheating."

When they were in Yecheng, in order not to be discovered by Mu Jiao, the two of them also hid in a room, separated by that door, and spoke flirtatious words without hesitation. Feel.

Jin Lingjiu shuddered all over, and his warm breath hit his ears, evoking the memory of cheating.

Their eyes met, they both knew what the other was thinking, but neither of them wanted to reveal it, enjoying the ambiguity that seemed to be there.

Pei Zhe laughed so badly: "Does Xiao Jiu'er look like that?"

Jin Lingjiu pondered for a moment, then said in a gentle voice: "It's not good to say this in broad daylight. If you want to repeat the old things, when you go back to the nunnery at night, let's find a small forest and steal it."

Pei Zhe's smile froze: "...Why do I want the old things to repeat themselves?"

Jin Lingjiu raised his eyebrows, and said, "It's okay, it's not you, it's me."

Pei Zhe: "..."

Never mentioned Jinling Jiu.

Pei Zhe secretly sighed inwardly. In the past, the two of them were at odds, but now that the window paper was pierced, Jin Lingjiu was even more shameless than him, daring to say anything.

"You were obviously not like this before." Pei Zhe said depressedly.

Jin Lingjiu dragged him to the backyard of the incense shop, and said, "I just let you in the past."

Pei Zhe was surprised and said: "I used to give in, but now I am merciless, so I don't cherish it after I get it?"

There was no one else in the yard, so Jin Lingjiu observed it, took Pei Zhe to jump off the roof, and hid in the room where all kinds of dried flowers were placed.

Surrounded by dried flowers and plants, all kinds of smells are mixed together, and there is a feeling of being in the mountains and forests, which is fresh and comfortable.

Jin Lingjiu took a quick look at the room, and took Pei Zhe to hide behind the door: "Don't label me indiscriminately, only unfamiliar people will let me come and go, who will be polite to people close to me?"

Pei Zheyang raised his eyebrows and remained silent, with an expression of "I'll just quietly watch you make up".

Jin Lingjiu bent his eyes, leaned over and touched his forehead: "I don't want to hide from you, I want you to know the whole truth about me, is that all right?"

"This reason is not acceptable." Pei Zhe grabbed his skirt, pulled him in front of him, and touched his forehead again, "I like this gesture of showing weakness."

Jin Lingjiu said "Hey": "I admit defeat, but I still can't flirt with my Jiaojiao."

The two chatted one after another, interspersed with small movements from time to time, and they were not nervous about acting in secret at all.

Pei Zhe sighed: "I used to be serious about my business, and I never got distracted by other things. Now that I'm fine, I'm full of thoughts about how I can tell you, Mr. Jiu is really blue-faced and troublesome."

Jin Lingjiu didn't feel annoyed, but rather proud: "It's my honor to be favored by Pei Lang."

Pei Zhe wiped his face: "Stop making trouble, let's go, get the business done first, and then I can concentrate on having an affair with you."

Jinling Nine: "..."

You don't look like you've stopped making trouble.

This place is the backyard of the incense shop. The smell of blood was smelled in the front shop before. The incident should have happened in the front room. Through the backyard where dried flowers are placed, you can reach the back room connected to the shop.

The two briefly searched the vicinity, and after confirming that there was no other valuable information, they moved towards the front room.

There is no need to enter the house, there is a door there, and you can check what is going on inside.

Unlike the incense shop, it was covered by a strong fragrance. The closer you got to the back room, the stronger the bloody smell, even Pei Zhe, who had a less sensitive sense of smell, could smell it.

Jin Lingjiu frowned tightly.

Seeing his expression, Pei Zhe looked a little serious, and mouthed: What's wrong?

Jin Lingjiu took a step closer, buried him on his shoulder, took a deep breath, and said in a low voice, somewhat aggrieved, "It smells bad, it makes me want to vomit."

Pei Zhe: "..."

Pei Zhe was distressed and funny, Jin Lingjiu's aggrieved appearance made his heart melt: "Why don't you go back to the backyard and wait for me."

He smelled blood very strongly, and Jin Lingjiu's reaction was so strong, it shouldn't be pretending.

"No." Jin Lingjiu snorted softly, "I want to be with you."

Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, Pei Zhe took out the handkerchief that he carried with him: "Cover your nose and see if you can block the smell."

Jin Lingjiu took it and murmured softly, "Why do you like this kind of handkerchief so much?"

Pei Zhe's ears were sharp, and when he heard this, he laughed and said, "What kind of this is it? Don't look at it as ordinary, but it's worth a penny!"

Jin Lingjiu folded the handkerchief into small squares: "I know, I still keep the piece you gave me before."

This time it was Pei Zhe's turn to be dazed: "...you still keep it?"

Jin Lingjiu said calmly, "Well, put it together with my white jade lamp, it's the first thing you gave me."

Pei Zhe couldn't tell what it was like in his heart, no matter what reason Jin Lingjiu left behind that veil, he couldn't help but be moved.

At that time in Huaizhou City, the two met for the first time. When he stuffed the handkerchief to Jinling Jiu, he didn't think too much about it. It's not that he didn't regret it later, it was worth a penny anyway!

Jin Lingjiu was well pampered, and had the best food and clothing. He thought that the handkerchief had been thrown away, but he didn't expect that it was kept by this person, and he treasured it carefully.

Pei Zhe's nose was a little sore, and after a while, he smiled lightly: "Jin Lingjiu, you are really... really my nemesis."

There will never be such a person in this world who makes him so moved that he cannot refuse.

Jin Lingjiu covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and lowered his eyebrows: "I'm very honored."

The room was very quiet, both windows were closed tightly, the wooden door was opened a small crack, thick blood flowed out from the bottom of the door, and a thin line of blood was drawn on the steps.

Pei Zhe and Jin Lingjiu looked at each other, walked around the door, and came to one of the windows. The window was covered with a layer of window paper, which made it impenetrable to see the situation inside.

Pei Zhe poked a small hole along the edge of the window paper, and peeked into the room. Jin Lingjiu was behind him, staring at the blood that flowed out from under the crack of the door.

After a while, Pei Zhe turned around and shook his head at Jin Lingjiu: "It's very dark inside, with tables and chairs, but no people or corpses can be seen. There are a string of dark marks on the ground, which should be blood."

Jin Lingjiu thought for a while and asked, "Is it a trace of dragging?"

Pei Zhe recalled: "No, there are two traces, both very thin, and they should be footprints, extending all the way to the door curtain."

Jin Lingjiu nodded: "In this case, it is probably the footprint left by the man who received us before."

Pei Zhe asked, "Is he the murderer?"

Jin Lingjiu said: "You just saw that there was no one else in the house. We came from the backyard and saw no one. The murderer could only be him."

Pei Zhe nodded: "Then I'll look for the corpse again."

When he was in the incense shop before, he didn't smell the bloody smell, so he inferred that the person might not be dead, but since he came here, this may not exist. Such a strong bloody smell, except for the blood loss There is a connection, and it is also related to time. It must have diverged after a period of time, otherwise the smell cannot be so strong.

The key now is to find the body and confirm who was killed.

The Thirteenth Bureau incense shop is the only place related to Jiang Yulou mentioned by Mr. Liu. The appearance of the man before just proved that this is not an ordinary incense shop. Regardless of whether this dead man had anything to do with Jiang Yulou, his identity should not be simple, otherwise no one would kill him.

Pei Zhe looked at it for a long time, changed several angles, but did not see the body: "Could it be that the body has been moved?"

Jin Lingjiu shook his head with a serious expression, "No, if the corpse is no longer in the room, there won't be a steady stream of blood flowing out. Look under the crack of the door, is the blood line getting longer and longer?"

Pei Zhe glanced determinedly: "When we first came here, this line was only halfway to the first step, and now it's almost to the second step."

Jinling Jiudao: "The ground is flat, and the blood is still flowing from the house, which proves that the corpse is still in the house, and the blood keeps increasing."

Pei Zhe shivered: "The person should have been dead for a while, and the blood is still flowing out. Why does this way of dying sound a little scary?"

Jin Lingjiu covered his mouth and nose with a veil, only his eyes were exposed: "Fortunately, it's not a very rare way to die."

Pei Zhe thought about his words, and said in surprise: "You already know how to die?"

Jin Lingjiu nodded, then shook his head: "I'm not sure about the specific method of killing, but what the murderer wants to create should be related to bloodletting. From the perspective of time and amount of bleeding, only in this way can the blood flow out little by little, and The presence of that line of blood coincides."

Pei Zhe was silent for a while, with an ugly expression: "I have an idea about where the corpse is."

Jin Lingjiu said solemnly, "I have an idea too."

Pei Zhe: "Try?"

"Try it, or you won't be willing to leave." Jinling Jiu looked around, picked up the flower hoe in the corner, "Come, use this."

Pei Zhe did some mental building for himself, took the flower hoe, and walked towards the wooden door.

Jin Lingjiu followed behind, and when Pei Zhe pushed open the door with a flower hoe, he grabbed his hand and yanked him violently, pulling him into his arms, and then quickly backed away.

"Squeak-"

The wooden door swung open.

"patta-patta-"

Immediately afterwards, there was a viscous dripping sound, which continued slowly.

Pei Zhe's back was tense, and he lay on Jin Lingjiu's chest, holding the back of his head with one hand, and pressing his head down.

Jin Lingjiu's movements were very gentle, the same as when he was in Baihua City. In this movement, Pei Zhe not only read what he meant, but also guessed what kind of picture was behind him.

His choice was the same as before, still turning around.

A pair of legs without feet hung over the door, blood dripped from the wound, and the dark brown blood pooled into a small pool on the ground.