This year's monsters are super fierce [75]

Zhongmu County, one of the sixteen counties under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng.

The deceased Yang Ci, female.The Yang family is in the garment business, and their family is well off.

A year and a half ago, Yang Ci married Li Quan, who owned a tavern. The relationship between the couple was still strong when they were newlyweds, but they only had some regrets, and there was no news of Yang Ci's pregnancy for a long time.

"Xiaoci has always been gentle and gentle, and has never had an argument with anyone. Who is it that kills a thousand swords and kills him next time?!"

Li Quan narrated Yang Ci's life during these days, but couldn't find anything unusual.Get up on time every day and clean the tavern with him to prepare for the opening. There is no need to go to the market to buy vegetables. Vegetable farmers who have cooperated with the tavern for five or six years will deliver vegetables regularly.

The tavern invited a cook to cook some home-cooked dishes for the guests to serve as appetizers, so that the couple didn't have to start another fire.Yang Ci is mainly responsible for some chores in the tavern, such as ordering drinks for people, checking out and other trivial matters, so he basically stays in the tavern all day.

Yang Ci's interpersonal relationship is not complicated.

Zhan Zhao made a note of this.The situation of Yang Ci is the same as that of the previous two victims. They are both rich and wealthy. They have been married for less than two years and have no children yet.

The first two deceased, Gu Xia was the daughter of Mr. Private School, married to someone who opened a bookstore, and her daily life was mainly to manage the bookstore business; People who run a fruit shop sell fruit in the shop on a daily basis.

Gu Xia and Sun Ping are not from Zhongmou County, the former is in Lankao County and the latter is in Fengqiu County.If the deaths were not too horrifying, these two cases would not have been reported to the Kaifeng government at every turn.

"When doing business, you will always encounter bad-tempered customers, and your family owns a tavern. In your impression, do you have any bad-tempered customers?"

Zhan Zhao asked this question to the family members of the two former victims. The three victims were basically killed when they went for a stroll nearby after lunch.

All three of them died in a dark alley in the county town. The place where the crime happened was not remote but quiet in the midst of the hustle and bustle. It was close to the stalls of slaughtering pigs and chickens in the market, so as to temporarily mask the bloody smell of skinning, and also to The hustle and bustle of the market concealed the movement of the assailant, giving the assailant enough time to escape.

Regarding the choice of the location and time of the murder, both Gongsun Ce and Zhan Zhao believed that the murderer's appearance was not harmful enough to arouse the suspicion of passers-by, and they were very familiar with the terrain of the county.

Or after repeated visits before and after, or because he often went to and from three counties, the possibility of acquaintances committing crimes needs to be considered.

Li Quan carefully recalled every drinker, but he had no idea who might be the murder suspect? "Although it is inevitable that people will cause trouble after drinking, but my restaurant does not operate a dinner market, and it closes at dusk. Most of the guests who come here are from the county or Linxiang and Lincun. There have been no major conflicts over the years, and more Not to mention the method of killing."

Now, as long as Li Quan closes his eyes, he will be reminded of the scene of identifying the corpse. Yang Ci's entire scalp is gone, but her front face is not injured. word.

Zhan Zhao took down the list of alcoholic names reported by Li Quan, and prepared to cross-check with the list of regular customers of the store provided by the family members of the first two victims.

But after a cursory glance, no overlap was found.The three counties of Zhongmu, Lankao, and Fengqiu are not adjacent to each other. With Bianjing as the center, these three counties can draw a triangle in three different directions.

Zhongmu County, back street of Dongpaifang Bazaar.

Gongsun Ce stood in the dark alley where Yang Ci's body was found. A string of blood splattered marks on the stone wall reminded people of the murderer's skinning process.

"His technique is very skilled. Only the scalp was taken, not the face. The three victims had slightly different head shapes. The murderer did not use the same way of cutting the knife, but chose the most suitable angle to remove the scalp."

Years ago, Bao Zheng won two most powerful generals for the Kaifeng Mansion, not only succeeded in asking the emperor to appoint Zhan Zhao, but also kept Gongsun Ce to stay in the mansion as the chief bookkeeper.

The imperial examination system in the Song Dynasty was a little tricky. It was divided into three levels: solution examination, provincial examination, and palace examination. The first to pass the examination of the local state capital was the one who passed the examination of the Ministry of Rites.

However, the status of Juren is not a life-long system, and it will last for three years. It is like getting an admission ticket to participate in the provincial examination, and passing it is called Jinshi.Only when you become a Jinshi can you be counted as a leader, and the palace examination basically doesn't screen people very much, it just changes the ranking of those Jinshi, and then they are appointed to do it.

It is conceivable that there are not many Jinshi places.

If you don't pass the provincial test, as soon as your Juren status expires, I'm sorry, please start all over again.

Gongsun Ce has already started from the beginning twice. Even though what he dreams of as a scholar is to be born as a scholar and become a student of the emperor, he still gritted his teeth and chose to give up unnecessary attachments.

Instead of spending three years left and right seeking a false name, it is better to accept Bao Zheng's sincere invitation and fulfill my original intention to do as many practical things as possible.

Bianjing City is the most prosperous city in the world, which makes Kaifeng Prefecture busy with many things.

At the beginning of the new year, Bao Zheng hardly had a moment to stop except for more than three hours of sleeping time.

How could Gongsun Ce not be busy.When he had a lot of work to do, he went to three counties for autopsy, but because of the brutality of the skinning case, he became the top three vicious serial murder cases since Zhao Zhen ascended the throne.

"The first two cases happened on the [-]th and [-]th of the first lunar month. When we went to investigate the scene of the crime, it had already been washed away by a heavy rain, and no more valuable clues were left behind.

Yang Ci was murdered here at noon yesterday, and Zhongmu County sealed off this dark alley.Guard Zhan, how do you feel standing here now? "

"Calm. The murderer is calm."

Zhan Zhao has seen many situations where arms were broken and bleeding was caused by fighting in the rivers and lakes. When he walked into this dark alley where Yang Ci was killed, the scene was not chaotic at all.

Those bloodstains showed how swiftly the murderer was, and he peeled off the scalp without leaving Yang Ci with a single drop of blood.The murderer did not forget to erase the footprints of the two entering Anxiang, and there were traces of cleaning on the dirt and stone road.

"There are not many evidences left at the scene. Police officers from Zhongmu County found some drug residues at the scene yesterday. Mr. Gongsun, can you tell what yours are for?"

Gongsun Ce nodded, "It's not a complicated medicine, but a hand sanitizer with some spices. Hand sanitizers are very common in the market. You can buy some common herbs and mix them with water to make your own. Adding spices is the murderer's preference. Unfortunately, this perfume is also It will take a lot of effort to find clues for cheap floral dew for the masses.”

People in Song Dynasty love fragrance, even if traffickers and pawns occasionally want to enjoy it.There are many types of incense, such as incense sticks, incense pills, perfumes, etc., are used in different ways, and their respective fragrances are varied.And there are still five days until the February [-]nd Flower Festival. After the Jingzhe is over, the spring will come more violently, and the fragrance will be more difficult to distinguish when the flowers bloom.

Under such circumstances, it is very difficult to determine the identity of the murderer from spices, and one cannot expect that in the huge city of Bianjing and its surrounding counties, dog//shit will directly bump into the murderer.

Zhan Zhao looked at the blood stains in the dark alley and frowned slightly. The interval between the three cases was not long, one was four days, and the other was six days. Maybe the next one will be a few days later. "I observed the density of people in the market in front of me at noon. If you don't want to be seen committing crimes, strangle people, skin them, clean your hands, and clean up the scene, you must complete all these within a stick of incense."

A stick of incense is very short, so short that it makes people feel chills at the cruelty of the murderer.

On an ordinary afternoon, people in the county town were living their lives step by step, but there was such a brutal murder case in an alley away.

Yang Ci, Gu Xia, and Sun Ping, the three of them are barely handsome, and they usually don't attract a lot of glances in the crowd.

Zhan Zhao re-examined the three crime locations and visited the possible witnesses around them. Indeed, no one had noticed that the three victims had appeared near the market.

We can only post the reward list for finding witnesses first, and bring Yang Ci's body back to Kaifeng Mansion.

Gongsun Ce wanted to conduct a further comparison of the three corpses, hoping to find out the previously neglected parts in the re-examination.

Fortunately, the two of them didn't get nothing, at least they had a rough image of the murderer.What is even more noteworthy is that the assailant was not looking for money, and the hair ornaments on the victim's head were also discarded, only a scalp and hair were taken away.

Before returning to Kaifeng Mansion, Zhan Zhao reorganized the evidence at the crime scene, and the two flower crowns worn by Gu Xia and Sun Ping had withered.

The blooming period of flowers is difficult to last, but compared to buying new gold and silver jewelry constantly, this corolla flower decoration can be renewed continuously at a reasonable price, and it can be designed according to one's own ideas.It is no wonder that the Dasong Flower Market is in full swing.

What is slightly different is that Yang Ci's corolla is different from the corollas of the first two victims who were abandoned on the ground. This one was trampled to pieces instead of being allowed to wither naturally.

The police in Zhongmu County were sure that they did not destroy the evidence at the scene by mistake, so judging from the murderer's calm behavior, the crushing of the corolla was probably not a mistake.

Why is there a difference?This inevitably made people suspect that the corolla worn by Yang Ci had something special, which aroused the disgust of the murderer, but it looked like an ordinary flower from the outside.

Li Quan said that the corolla was purchased at the Yue-Mu Flower Decoration Shop where Yang Ci often goes.Yuemu Flower Decoration Shop has been open for four or five years in Zhongmu County. The price of flower decorations is moderate, and most of them are made of common flowers. Yang Ci will go there every two or three months. Unfortunately, he did not get any useful clues when he visited Yuemu Flower Decoration Shop. .

The owner of the flower shop admitted that this flower crown was sold by his family, and more than 20 similar flower crowns were sold. No one responded to the problem, but the store owner did not remember that Yang Ci ever came to buy flowers.

'There are a lot of customers who come to buy headgear every day, how can I remember them all, except for those who are particularly embarrassing in appearance, I also remember the ones that are particularly good-looking.If an adult comes to buy it, I must remember it clearly. '

On January 28, Bianjing was sunny and sunny.

Zhan Zhao thought about the words of the owner of the Yue-Mu Flower Decoration Shop, so he couldn't blame the other party for his bad memory.

Speaking of memory, Zhan Zhao remembered that there was a moon and a half waiting for him. After hearing this, Bao Zheng agreed to raise the little Nian beast in Kaifeng Mansion, as long as he asked Nian Fei not to hurt others or run around in the front office.However, three murders happened one after another, Zhan Zhao had no time to prepare Nian Fei's kennel, and had to wait for Nian Fei to move.

However, Nian Fei was really hopeless.

In the afternoon, it was lying listlessly on the rattan chair, and when it heard the footsteps approaching the door of Buloose flower shop, it straightened up and looked at the person who came.Finally, after more than 20 days of no news, Zhan Zhao reappeared.

Nian Fei almost jumped up and rushed towards Zhan Zhao, but when she bent her forelegs, she refrained from this useless throwing into her arms.It turned its body to the inside with great backbone, leaving only a shadow of Zhan Zhao's back, and lay quietly on the rattan chair.

Zhan Zhao returned to Kaifeng Mansion to report the progress of the case to Bao Zheng, and came to the flower shop just after filling his hungry stomach for more than an hour.He saw the aggrieved Nian Fei at a glance, and before he had time to say anything, he was confronted with his hips, did he want to coax him?

In the flower shop, only Chen Zhixuan was watching the field, and there were no figures of Yan Buzhou and Ying Wangdong.

Zhan Zhao nodded slightly to Chen Zhixuan, and Nian Fei's pricked ears drooped as soon as he opened his mouth. He asked first, "Zhixuan, is your husband there?"

Chen Zhixuan originally thought that Zhan Zhao would first rub Nian Fei's head and ask about its current situation, but who would have thought that this was deliberately ignoring a certain chubby one.

"Sir and Manager Xiaoying have gone to discuss business, but they are about to come back. Mr. Zhan might as well go to the back garden to rest for a while. You don't have to wait too long and it will be soon."

Zhan Zhao inadvertently glanced at Nian Fei who was lying still on his stomach, and he swallowed back the words that he would go to Kaifeng Mansion to discuss something after he came back.After running around for days, it doesn't matter if he relaxes and waits for a quarter of an hour.

"Okay, I'll wait in the back. Zhixuan doesn't need to be busy, I'll just sit in the yard by myself."

The small courtyard behind is already a sea of ​​flowers, some are budding, and some are swaying in the wind.Sitting under the grape arbor and admiring these flowers can really make people forget those brutal murders for a while.

In the front hall, Chen Zhixuan poked Nian Fei's buttocks, "Don't cover your head and pretend to be asleep, hurry up and go to the yard. I left someone for you, but you are losing your temper."

Nian Fei moved her body and ignored Chen Zhixuan, what does it mean to have a temper?As a dignified Nian beast, it must be coaxed to be happy before moving.

"It's up to you, it's not that I'm going to Kaifeng mansion anyway." Chen Zhixuan didn't talk to Nian Fei any more, no longer participated in the main favor fight, but wanted to know if Yan Buzhou could buy that piece of land today.

After the opening of the not lost flower shop, the business is booming. Compared with other flower shops, Yingwangdong's planting technique makes the freshness of the flowers longer.Now there is an urgent need for a piece of land, not too big, just let Ying Wangdong use it as a flower garden.

Kaifeng Prefecture Land Management Office.

Yan Buzhou and Lu Peilan completed the procedures for the resale of the Lu family's land.

It is not easy to find a suitable flower field near Bianjing that can be put into use immediately. On the one hand, it is hard to find a place, and on the other hand, the price remains high.

It was Lu Peilan who took the initiative to come to this business.Ever since Physician Lu was killed and Hu Wei, the actual person in charge of the Lu Family Medical Center, committed suicide, Lu Peilan has successively sold off his properties.

"I don't know the way of medicine. Dad and Awei have already gone. It's not good to keep these properties. It's better to sell them as soon as possible. Although Mr. Yan hasn't found out what Awei went through, I know you If you don’t give up on the investigation, there will be a result sooner or later, and you must come to Jiangnan and tell me the reason.”

When Lu Peilan heard that Yan Buzhou had opened a flower shop, she thought that the field originally planted with high-priced medicinal plants such as Suxin Orchid could be resold to her. "Selling to anyone is selling, I might as well sell Mr. Yan as a favor."

Does Lu's medicine field meet Yan Buzhou's expectations for the flower garden?

must be compliant.The size of that place is suitable, and she has personally checked the soil quality and it is very suitable, and she arrived not long after leaving Ansu Gate, whether it is from the Huangfu or the flower shop in the inner city, it is very close.

However, Yan Buzhou never thought about taking over the land from the very beginning.Before, I heard that Lu Peilan had been selling property names one after another since years ago, and she planned to bring the ashes of Imperial Physician Lu to her hometown in Jiangnan.The problem is that the Lu family's medicine fields are too close to Bianjing, and the land is not well priced and cannot be afforded.

"I will keep an eye on Hu Wei's affairs until I find out what happened to him. And I appreciate Mrs. Lu's kindness, but I can't afford that piece of land. Mrs. Lu should find someone else."

Why did Hu Wei have Qin Yuan's stinger in his head?This is still a mystery.

Yan Buzhou didn't want to use this to take over the Lu family's medicine field, at least it was worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, such a difficult case handling fee could not be collected.

Lu Peilan still insisted, showing that she is not short of money, medical clinics, pharmacies and other properties have sold a lot of money, and she doesn't care about Duoyaotian.

"Mr. Yan can pay the bill in batches. You don't have to be in a hurry. You can wait until May and June when the flower shop has enough cash to make up the balance. Send the money to Huiqinzhuang. It also has a branch in Jiangnan, so I can pick it up there. "

Huiqinzhuang is a semi-state-run and semi-private bank, with branches in all major cities in the Song Dynasty.

It does provide remote access services, but currently only supports bulk transactions.Lu Family Medical Center used to be one of Huiqianzhuang's VIP customers, and Lu Peilan saved enough money in it to win this preferential treatment.

When Yan Buzhou heard this, it was a lie to say that he was not tempted, not to mention that she had contacted several real estate agencies, and they all made it clear that there was no land on hand that met her expectations, and she could only wait until someone sold it.

"Mr. Yan, you should have fulfilled my dream. You pay the bill slowly, and I gradually adapt to life without them, instead of cutting it off and leaving nothing. I sold this land to others, and I am talking about collecting the bill. I can have a miss from time to time.”

Lu Peilan added this sentence again, she also has selfish intentions, I hope that if she is not careful, she will not forget to find out the source of Hu Wei's mutation. "Sir, you can invite experts to inspect the land, and then call the person in charge of Shanghui Qianzhuang. We will go to Kaifeng Mansion to sign a formal contract and complete the procedures."

"Okay. Mrs. Lu has said so, so I will be disrespectful."

Yan Buzhou took a deep look at Lu Peilan, no longer thinking about whether someone behind her paid the money first, and still remembered that Guo Huai once wanted to give her a box of gold and silver for the case handling fee.

Anyway, the purchase of the field this time is going through the normal procedures, but I took a step back and thought that if someone related to Hu Wei came to Bianjing, he should go to the medicine field.

In this way, after Ying Wangdong went to check the situation of the medicine field and made sure that there was no problem, he and Lu Peilan completed the resale procedures before speaking.

The two said goodbye in front of the Kaifeng mansion, and asked Lu Peilan a few more questions about her future plans, "Miss Lu is going to her hometown in Jiangnan, is there anything I can help you with?"

"Thank you, Mr. Yan, for your concern. This has already been arranged. Although I don't care about the medical clinic, I have some friends in Bianjing. Thanks to their relationship, the accommodation and transportation to Jiangnan have been properly arranged."

Lu Peilan slightly mentioned that she was asking the sisters from the Hairpin Association to help. "Hairpin Flower Association is a self-organized association among the people. Most of the women who like flower decorations gather together to share and discuss what flower crowns can be made from flowers every month, and which kind of hair bun is more suitable for which flowers. If Mr. Yan is interested, please let me know. You can take a look, since it is a flower business, it is closely related to flower decoration."

I understand, the Hairpin Association is a big society in the market.

Yan Buzhou wrote down the main persons in charge of the Hairpin Association and the places where they often used it. It is indeed a way to enhance the reputation of the flower shop through the Hairpin Association to promote the flower shop without getting lost.This matter will be discussed later, the flower garden must be tidied up first, and a table of delicious food should be served to celebrate the completion of the flower field.

At that moment, Yan Buzhou happily returned to the flower shop, and saw Zhan Zhao sitting peacefully with his eyes closed among the flowers in the backyard.

In the afternoon, the sun is slightly warm, the wind is clear, and there is a red dress among the flowers.I can only praise the redness of the flowers on the human face.

"Guess who I am?"

Zhan Zhao heard a question with a smile in his ear.He was waiting for the year and a half, but he didn't expect that little monster to really get stronger. He wanted to enjoy the fragrance of flowers for a while to soothe his nerves, and then go to the little fat monster again, and unconsciously fell asleep.When footsteps gradually sounded.He didn't open his eyes immediately, but in the next moment, he didn't want to be blindfolded by a hand.

"Ayan." Zhan Zhao lightly brushed away Yan Buzhou's hand, and saw a smiling face, he couldn't help but also laughed at this smiling face, "It seems that Ah Yan is in a very good mood. "

Yan Buzhou looked at Zhan Zhao's slightly tired expression, she asked Nian Fei why his master didn't come, and she only heard that Zhan Zhao was out of town to handle a case. "Of course I'm in a good mood after finishing the flower garden. However, it seems that Brother Zhan's case is very difficult to handle. Have you not had a good rest for a few days?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head and didn't answer. As long as the skinning case is not solved, he won't be able to rest well.He briefly mentioned the three skinning cases, "Master Bao and I have consulted for instructions, and I would like to invite you to the government office to assist in handling the case. First, make sure that there are no strange monsters involved in this case."

Yan Buzhou heard that it was a serial murder case of this nature, and knew that the murderer would not stop killing unless he was caught. "Okay. Let's go now."

At the corner, Nian Fei listened secretly to the corner of the wall. The two of them didn't mention anything about its moving arrangements, so how long will it have to wait?Are you trying to catch some serial killer?

When Nian Fei was thinking hard about how it could demonstrate its ability to move into Kaifeng Mansion as soon as possible, the two people in the backyard had already turned around and walked behind it.

"I haven't seen you for a while. Yue Ban has learned a new skill and will be able to eavesdrop."

Zhan Zhao picked up Nian Fei, who had a dog-faced look, and poked its fat belly, "It's just stealing information and other secret guard work, which requires a lot of body. When I looked at it, I saw a hairball By the corner, it’s not exactly your puffy stomach.”

Nian Fei widened her eyes and looked at Zhan Zhao in disbelief.It had been waiting for Zhan Zhao to coax it for a long time, but this master who hadn't fully taken office came up with this sentence?

Angry, really angry, it would rather stay in the flower shop and face the bad words.

Yan Buzhou glanced at Nian Fei, could she be foolish enough to be a receiver? "Take it with you to the government office. It doesn't claim to be able to track, maybe it can help sometime."

Not long after the two of them left, the little fat demon, Ying Wangdong came back.He should have been happy for winning the flower garden, but after hearing a sentence halfway through, he felt a little unhappy.Someone actually said that the flowers he sells fade faster than other flower shops, which is absolutely unreasonable.