Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

Zhan Zhao stood in front of the medicine bucket in Tong'an Hall, staring at it for a long time, using the same method, but this time only three parts of the corpse were cut and placed in the medicine bucket.

Hands, heart, feet.

The places to put them are the first row from the top, the third cell, the feet; the second row, the second cell from the top, the heart; the third row from the top, the first cell, the hands.Similarly, there is an opened cabinet, and the medicine inside is still angelica.

Tong'an Hall is a well-known large pharmacy in the capital, so there is not only a seven-star medicine bucket, but the murderer picked the medicine bucket with angelica alone, and this time, the opened cabinet containing angelica was the first in the last row. In Qige, Zhan Zhao asked the people in Tong'an Hall, and sure enough, Angelica was not on this floor originally, but was moved to the bottom floor by the murderer and was in an open state.

What exactly was the murderer trying to express by doing this?

Is it a show off or a warning?

Zhan Zhao frowned, stared at Yaodou and looked at it until Gongsun came out from the inner hall, followed by several government servants carrying the corpse covered in white cloth, Zhan Zhao walked over and asked, "Sir, how do you do it?" ?”

Gongsun smacked his lips and said: "The time of death was from midnight to Chou last night. The deadly wound on the corpse was on the neck. It should be that after the murderer supported the victim from behind, he slashed his throat with a backhand and killed him. See the depth of the wound." , I feel that a man with strong martial arts can do it, and the specific situation will not be known until I return to Kaifeng Mansion for an autopsy."

Zhan Zhao nodded, then turned his head to look at the bloody medicine bucket.

Gongsun patted him on the shoulder and said: "Later, you have to go to the palace to be on duty. Go back after collecting the evidence earlier. Don't waste the time. I'll go back to Kaifeng Mansion first."

Zhan Zhao said "Okay", Gongsun took his own things and left first, Zhan Zhao started to stare at Yaodou again, after a while, Bai Yutang came over and handed a piece of paper to Zhan Zhao, Zhan Zhao Unfolding the paper, I found that it was the picture of the body parts placed in the medicine bucket in the first case and the picture of placing the body parts in this case. What, even if the two don't speak, they can understand each other clearly.

Zhan Zhao asked the clerk in the store to borrow a vermilion pen, and marked the two open drawers of Angelica.

Holding a pen and thinking for a while, he asked the shopkeeper beside him, "Shopkeeper, who found the corpse?"

The shopkeeper didn't dare to say anything and stayed beside Zhan Zhao. When Zhan Zhao asked himself, he said tremblingly: "The guy who came to open the door in the morning, when he was cleaning the medicine bucket, he found blood oozing out of it. Look at these bloody hands and feet, I was almost scared to death... Then the guy yelled loudly, we were all attracted by the shouts, and then, we found the boss's body in the consultation room inside... Don't dare to delay, I will report to Kaifeng Mansion immediately!"

"Oh?" Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin habitually, "Then who was the last person to see your boss last night?"

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, but before he could answer, a voice sounded from behind Zhan Zhao.

"It's a slave."

When Zhan Zhao turned around, he saw the handsome proprietress whom he met a few days ago who fed Da Ni Guotang came out of the back room, came to Zhan Zhao's body, she first saluted politely, and then said slowly: "My family's real name is Zhu Yu. She is the third wife and concubine of Tong Qingyang, the head of the Tong'an Hall. Last night at xu shi, the husband went out of the slave's room and then went back to his own room to rest. The slave has never seen the husband again. Who would have thought that this morning..."

After finishing speaking, the woman just sighed, but she didn't see any sadness on her face.

Zhan Zhao said: "Since you are husband and wife, don't you sleep in the same room?"

Zhu Yu shook his head and said: "I don't know, my lord, there are several ladies in my hometown. In order to show that I treat everyone equally, and to avoid jealousy, I decided not to spend the whole night with any of the sisters. The rule of going back to your own room to sleep...Although he only brought one person from the slave family to the capital, the tradition of not staying overnight is still upheld..."

Zhan Zhao nodded, unexpectedly, Tong Qingyang was quite flamboyant.Zhu Yu saw that Zhan Zhao had nothing to ask, so he withdrew. Zhan Zhao took the pen and began to focus on looking at the draft on the table again, occasionally discussing a few words with Bai Yutang beside him.

"Speaking of which, the body parts put into the medicine bucket this time are missing arms and legs compared to last time... I don't know what the murderer's intention is..."

Bai Yutang said: "The placement is also different, but the one in the middle is all the heart."

Zhan Zhao frowned: "I am also very concerned about the heart. I only cut off the deceased's organ, and the rest are the torso... What does it represent?"

After speaking, Zhan Zhao tugged at his collar, Bai Yutang saw this and asked, "What, is it hot?"

Zhan Zhao nodded: "It's a bit stuffy... Well, speaking of it, I also admire that Mrs. Zhu Yu. On such a hot day, every time I see her, she wears a high collar. She's really good at resisting heat..."

Bai Yutang laughed and said, "I guess her husband doesn't want her to be looked at."

Zhan Zhao glanced at Bai Yutang: "You small-bellied men are quite sympathetic to each other, tsk."

Bai Yutang: "..."

The two of them forgot the time when they studied the medicine fight, and the shopkeeper at the side was embarrassed to talk. When it was almost evening, Mrs. Zhu Yu came out and asked the two of them if they wanted to stay for dinner. A thing that took him by surprise.

"Oops!!! I have to enter the palace tonight, my husband reminded me just now and I forgot, it's over, it's over, it's over..."

Bai Yutang said indifferently: "It's best, I don't have to go."

Zhan Zhao squinted at Bai Yutang: "Mice, you didn't mean to remind me of this, did you?"

Bai Yutang rarely avoided Zhan Zhao's eyes, and turned his face to the side.

Just as Zhan Zhao was about to speak, Mrs. Zhu Yu said, "Master Zhan is going to enter the palace? It's only two streets away from the palace. It's very close, so we should be able to catch up."

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head and said, "Hey, that's right, I still think I am in Kaifeng Mansion, so Zhan Zhao will leave first, and we will definitely deal with the case as soon as possible."

Mrs. Hongyu returned the salute: "Why don't you have dinner here before leaving?"

"No, no, don't bother Madam... Hey, Mouse, hurry back and don't wander around in the street!" After saying that, he didn't care about Bai Yutang's expression, and hurried out.

After turning around a street, he arrived at the foot of the imperial palace as Mrs. Zhu Yu said. Zhan Zhao was rejoicing when suddenly, the picture of the corpse hidden in the medicine bucket that he had seen thousands of times flashed through his mind.

After being stunned for a while, Zhan Zhao finally understood why the Yaodou felt familiar when he saw it for the first time.

It seems that the body parts hidden in the medicine bucket are really a kind of warning?

Zhan Zhao frowned, so the murder will happen again?What is the murderer's intention?

Thinking about it, I still dare not delay on duty. Fortunately, I have prepared an extra set of clothes in the palace, so I can go directly without spending too much time...

There was nothing else going on in the palace, Zhao Zhen asked someone to prepare a snack after reviewing the memorial, thinking that Zhan Zhao was on duty tonight, a smile could not help but appear on the corner of his mouth.When it was almost past the shift change time, Zhao Zhen ordered someone to invite Zhan Zhao in.

"Humble to join His Majesty."

Zhao Zhen nodded, sat upright and said, "I heard that there were murders in two pharmacies in the capital?"

Zhan Zhao murmured in his heart, whether the little emperor's eyes and ears should be so dedicated: "Your majesty is bothered, I will solve the case as soon as possible."

Zhao Zhen asked: "Oh? So I don't know who did it?"

Zhan Zhao really wanted to sigh, this little emperor is really hard to deal with, really...

"The murderer has not yet been identified."

Zhao Zhen said again: "It seems that the capital has been very uneasy recently."

It's this kind of question that it's not right for Zhan Zhao to answer "yes", and it's not right to say "no"...

Seemingly seeing that Zhan Zhao was in a bit of trouble, Zhao Zhen smiled again and said, "The injuries Zhan Huwei suffered before are all healed now?"

"It's all right now, please worry about it, Your Majesty."

Zhao Zhen nodded: "The case is going to be solved, but the body is also very important. If there is something wrong with the guards, and I lose a capable officer by my side, then the current capital city is not the only one that is not peaceful..."

Alas, that's why I hate this kind of master who has to go around every time he speaks, handles it carefully and still doesn't know how to serve him. Every time he talks to this little emperor, he has to ponder for a long time. Sure enough, it is best to go straight like a white mouse...

Zhao Zhen saw that Zhan Zhao's eyebrows were frowned and he didn't know what he was thinking, so he asked the people around him to back off, and then pointed to the snacks on the table beside him: "Guard Zhan, try the freshly made meat mooncakes? "

Zhan Zhao glanced at the meat mooncakes, then another, and finally pouted, walked over and ate them without hesitation.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Zhen couldn't help laughing: "I thought you would refuse, and I was thinking about how to let you eat."

Zhan Zhao sighed: "If I don't eat it, Your Majesty may come up with a way to make me eat it. Since Your Majesty has already sent people away, I'd better satisfy my appetite honestly."

This little emperor is the same before and after.Zhan Zhao was dissatisfied chewing on the mooncakes. To be honest, the dim sum in the palace is different. It’s not that he has never eaten meat mooncakes, but once he ate this one, his mouth was full of flavor and juice. It was so delicious, Zhan Zhao Zhao bluntly took one and continued to eat.

Zhao Zhen walked down, saw Zhan Zhao eating, and immediately got an appetite, took one and ate it: "Tell me about the case?"

Zhan Zhao said: "Hey, Your Majesty, if you keep listening to these bloody things, it's not good for your health. If your health is not good, it will affect the country, endanger the common people, and the world will really be in chaos."

Zhao Zhen nodded: "This is taking my words to join my army, right?"

"The subordinates dare not, but the subordinates feel that in this world, whoever is missing will still live the same life, and the common people in the world cannot be shaken by one person."

"It's fine for you to say these things in front of me alone. If those old stereotypes hear it, your Master Bao will have a headache for you again."

"Well, this subordinate understands."

Seeing Zhan Zhao's absent-minded look, Zhao Zhen asked, "Is there really no clue about the case?"

"No." Zhan Zhao smacked his lips habitually, "At least I have some clues now."