At that time, the two people in the teahouse did not know about the turmoil in the rouge shop, nor did they know that they were about to meet an uninvited guest who came not far from Baiyun City.
After Ji Er answered Mo Qi's question, he said bitterly: "Master Guoshi, the young one is really obsessed with money for a while, you must have a lot of adults... You, do you have any questions to ask, just feel free Say, it’s not Ji Er, I’m bragging, there’s no one who doesn’t know anything that happened on this street!”
It's been five years since Mo Qi walked the rivers and lakes, and no one has ever been so afraid of him, as if he was going to slap the gavel in the next second, dragging people down and beheading him.
They were all tossed about by Zhao Zhen's imperial decree.
Mo Qi had a headache for a while, raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, and didn't waste any more time explaining that he really didn't know how "the national teacher was angry, and Ji Er's blood flowed into a river", and asked directly: "Recently, apart from that black-clothed man , but are there any other strange things?"
Ji Er racked his brains to think for a while, and said distressedly: "Strange things... But on our street, there are all businessmen, and everyone lives in a down-to-earth way, so how could there be any 'strange things'..." He scratched his head His head and eyes suddenly lit up, "We don't have any on the street, but there is a strange thing happening in the mansions of rich merchants gathered in the south."
Ji [-]: "The Su family, Mr. Su, only welcomed a young concubine back last year. Half a month ago, that concubine died."
"When she died, she was still pregnant with her child! One dead body and two lives! He fell down in the snow in the cold, and the blood on the ground turned the snow red, as if the rouge had been knocked over..."
Mo Qi: "Tell me in detail."
Ji Er saw that Mo Qi was really interested in this matter, so he cheered up and told Mo Qi in detail: "Let's talk about this matter, if we want to talk about it, we have to start with Master Su."
"Master Su can be regarded as a celebrity in our Gusu, and Mr. Bai of the Bai family is a good brother of Tie Baer. People here know the saying, 'You can't be romantic like Su, and you can't taste flowers. Bai'. These two old masters are well-known lustful people in our Gusu. They run to the Fireworks and Willow Alley when they see the sky, and they are rarely at home. Call them 'firework twins'."
"Both of them are elders from wealthy families, with colorful flags fluttering outside their homes, but at home, there must be a handsome and wise wife to support them. Elder Su and Elder Bai are also very lucky. Mrs. Shi, they are all famous beauties in Gusu. Mrs. Su is beautiful and charming, with the beauty of a peony; Fireworkers, who have only been around for a few years, got tired of the family and started running outside."
"Mrs. Bai has nothing to say. She is an honest person who caresses her husband and teaches her children. No matter how much Mrs. Bai messes around outside, she has never seen her making a fuss."
"But Mrs. Su is different. She has a fierce personality and is known as the "Hedong Lion" by everyone in a hundred li. Every time Mrs. Su brings a concubine into the mansion, Mrs. Su has to make a fuss. After that, he will also I dare not lift up my concubine. The concubine who died half a month ago was brought in by Mr. Su risking her life because she had a child of Mr. Su. Mrs. Su can't do anything about it. After all, who made her belly swell How about striving? How many years have passed, and the watermelon should be seeding, but her stomach hasn't moved at all."
"When that little concubine's body was first discovered, everyone thought that Mrs. Su was jealous and killed that little concubine! But..."
Ji Er hesitated for a moment.
Seeing that Ji Er's expression was different, Mo Qi asked, "What's wrong?"
Ji Er lowered his voice, appearing a little nervous: "But anyone who has seen the corpse will know that it is impossible for someone to do it..."
Ximen Chuuxue's cold eyes swept over: "It can't be a human hand?"
Pretend to be a ghost.
When Ximen Chuuxue looked at Ji Er, his back felt cold, his legs trembled, and he said in panic: "Really! Really! That concubine's body is covered with scars, but those are not wounds caused by weapons, but ...But it looks like the scratches from the bones of a dead man's hand!"
"Let's not talk about that little concubine, even the child in her belly was ripped out. The eight-month-old child is in shape, and the head has been pressed with several hand bones. This can’t be wrong, right? That’s the handprint of the skeleton!”
Mo Qi and Ximen Chuuxue looked at each other: "Then, how is this case judged?"
Ji Er smiled wryly and said: "How else can I be judged? I can't let the police go to the cemetery to dig up a skeleton to pay for their lives, right? Everyone said that this concubine was actually killed by a bone girl!"
Mo Qi frowned: "Bone girl?"
Why is she a bone girl again.
Ximen Chuuxue: "Have you heard?"
Full of doubts, Mo Qi said to Ximen Chuuxue, "Yes. I heard about it not long ago. But it's not here, not in Gusu."
Ximen Chuixue paused and asked, "Where is it?"
Mo Qi: "Bashu, Miaoyin City."
That bony girl who always breaks into people's backyards and dyes the rice in the rice jar and the water in the water jar pink.
From Bashu to Gusu... Isn't the scope of activities of this bone girl too big?
Or, there was no connection between the two before, but it just happened that there was a legend of a bone girl in Miaoyin City, and a murder case of a bone girl happened in Gusu?
Ximen Chuuxue said indifferently: "There is no coincidence."
Mo Qi suppressed all the questions that popped up in his head, and asked Ji Er again: "The government hasn't investigated the case of the concubine of the Su family anymore?"
Ji Er frowned and said: "How to check... There is no clue. Besides, once the rumor about the bone girl comes out, the Su family will be frightened into panic."
"Everyone in Gusu said that the little concubine was helping Master Su. Think about it, what kind of enmity does the bone girl have against the little concubine and the child in her belly? There is no reason to kill her! It must have been intended to kill the unlucky Mr. Su, but for some reason, something went wrong in the middle of the story, and he gave Mr. Su a concubine."
"Now that concubine is dead, maybe the bone girl will be attached to the dead concubine's body, and then I will go to Master Su to pay for my life!"
"When the Su family heard the rumors, they were afraid of death. How dare they let the concubine's body be left outside for a few more days. After the official autopsy, they just wanted to go back... They said that the autopsy was over anyway. , let’s hurry up and let the dead body be buried in the ground.”
"In fact, the government also suspects that the Su family's own people did it, but... but the skeleton handprint is really unreasonable! This case has been put on hold until now, and it has not been solved."
Mo Qi frowned: Who spread the rumor? Why does it sound like a disguised form to threaten the Su family to dispose of the concubine's body quickly?
Ji Er looked at Mo Qi's expression, as if he was still not satisfied, so he pursed his mouth and said, "Master, I don't know the details. I'm just a waiter in an ordinary teahouse, not a yamen The arrester with a knife in this case... I know that I am already well informed about this kind of case. If I know more, then I am the murderer himself! If you want to know more clear information, then You have to go to the Yamen and ask."
Ji Er shook his head: "Are the two of you finished asking? If it's over, can the younger one leave first..."
Ji Er was secretly looking at Mo Qi, but happened to pass Mo Qi's shoulder and landed on the window behind Mo Qi.
Ji Er's words stopped in the middle, and the instinct of gossip made him forget his fear in an instant. He suddenly raised his head and widened his eyes: "Huh? Why are there so many people from the government outside here?"
Mo Qi: "What?"
He turned around and looked out the window.
Sure enough, I saw a few people dressed as policemen leading the way, leading a group of yamen servants, walking to the other end of the street in a mighty way.
"Where is this going?" Ji Er didn't dare to come closer, so he stretched his neck and stood on the spot to identify, "Hey, isn't that the direction of Shen's Rouge Shop? Why are there so many people here? Could it be, Something happened to Shen's rouge shop?!"
Shen's rouge shop, isn't it the same rouge shop that Ji Er said earlier that Murong Fu always wandered around in the middle of the night?
Mo Qi stood up immediately, and said to Ximen Chuixue, "Go, go and have a look."
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Shen family, rouge shop.
The deputy shopkeeper was arguing with the police: "Hey, my shopkeeper is dead, so we can't close our Rouge shop! It's not the people in our shop who did it."
"Also, please keep your voices down, I'm receiving noble people here!" The deputy shopkeeper lowered his voice.
The head catcher pushed away the deputy shopkeeper who wanted to come over to whisper to him, and said disgustedly: "What kind of distinguished guest? No matter what kind of distinguished guest, the current murder case cannot delay our yamen's business!"
"Where is your distinguished guest? Tell him to come out! Shen's Rouge Shop will be searched and questioned today, and will not open the door for business! Tell him to go back where he came from, and come back after we finish the search and questioning!"
The head catcher is also a local, so he naturally knew where the VIP room of Shen's Rouge Shop was. After pushing away the deputy shopkeeper, he strode inside, preparing to chase the customers in person.
When he walked to the door of the VIP room, he just raised his hand, but he hadn't put the door on it yet.
Two cold silver knives, one in front of the other, were silently across his neck.
The tightly closed mahogany door creaked open from the inside, and a tall, stern man dressed in snow-white Chinese fur with pearls on the buttons of his breasts walked out.His complexion was as white as jade, and there was an inhuman, bone-chilling chill, even if most of his face was buried in the fur of the fluffy shawl, it couldn't hide the solid murderous aura all over his body.
The head catcher froze into a stone on the spot.I just felt that the other party's long and narrow eyes, when they slowly fell on him, had already sentenced him to death.
The head catcher was covered in cold sweat, his legs were as soft as stepping into the swamp: This... Where did this god of killing come from?
This... this can't be someone from a killer organization that kills people without blinking an eye, right? !
Gong Jiu was still holding the rouge box that the deputy shopkeeper had wrapped for him.
Without saying anything, he raised his chin slightly.
The two hidden guards who restrained the head catcher immediately stretched out their hands, one of them wrapped around one of the head catcher's shoulders, the cold knife was still on the head catcher's neck, dragging him out of the inner room.
The catcher's feet were dragged straight on the ground, and he felt that he had become a chicken about to be slaughtered. When he was dragged out of the sight of the white-fur man, the head of the chicken would fall to the ground, blood spattering three feet up.
The arresters who had gathered in the outer room saw the leader being dragged out like a dead pig with a knife across his neck, and immediately pulled out their knives from their sheaths.
The silver shadow reflected by the knife surface is dangerously and tensely swimming in the Rouge shop.
A fast catcher yelled: "How dare you, thief! How dare you attack the head catcher in broad daylight at the feet of the emperor! Don't let him go!"
The two hidden guards didn't say a word, the knife was still on the head catcher's neck, they just dragged him to the front of the main room, and then they didn't move, as if they were waiting for something.
Before the catcher's eyes were about to be fascinated by sweat, the white-fur man in the inner room finally came out, every step was as if the step distance had been precisely measured by a ruler, smooth and silent.
The Huaqiu on his body is neat and there is almost no wrinkle, and there is not even a trace of broken hair on his head. The black hair is neatly tied in the jade crown, and the perfect cold face reveals a kind of metal-like coldness and no organic matter. It seemed that even if someone splashed three feet of blood in front of him, it wouldn't disrupt his breath or heartbeat.
The warm blood in the chests of the people in the room was almost cooled by his venomous snake-like gaze.
Gong Jiu sat down on the grand teacher's chair in the front seat without slowing down, and said, "Yes—"
He only had time to spit out an initial consonant in his kill character, and the subsequent final was suddenly stuck on the person who stepped into the door at this time.
Gong Jiu's "killing" word changed suddenly: "Yes——when did you come?"
The room that was originally icy cold suddenly rejuvenated.
The head catcher looked helplessly at the man in front of him who was still cold like a piece of millennium black iron, the condensed and sharp aura around him suddenly softened, and even the murderous aura that could not be suppressed disappeared instantly. up.The last bit of coldness was also softened by the fur on the fur shawl, making him appear harmless.
Headhunter: "..."
Deputy shopkeeper: "..."
All the people in the rouge shop who saw Gong Jiu's face change with their own eyes: "..."
? ? ?Wasn't this ancestor like this just now?
Mo Qi was also very surprised. At first he thought that Gong Jiu might still be in Baiyun City, or he might have gone back to his own territory, but he didn't expect to meet him again in Gusu.
It's hard not to let Mo Qi feel that Gong Jiu actually came here with him.
Mo Qi's expression also softened a lot, looking at Gong Jiu who had already put on the fur coat he had made for him: "It's very beautiful."
Gong Jiu stretched out her hands to gather the fur around her neck, and she knew how to use her advantage to bury her face in the fur again, only revealing a pair of black and bright, long and beautiful phoenix eyes.
Mo Qi really looked at Gong Jiu, and didn't move his eyes away for a long time.
So much alike... so much alike.
Mo Qi couldn't help but think of those snow foxes in the ice pond. Every time he catches them and wants to bathe and wash them, they will definitely thrash around until their bodies are covered with foam, leaving only It was the way they looked at him when the bright black eyes were not covered by the foam.
It seems to be saying: no more washing.I am good.Don't wash it.
If you take the opportunity to stroke the fluffy tails of the snow foxes a few more times, they will still protest angrily and aggrievedly.
The fur collar adorned with pearls, like a snow fox's tail covered in foam, curled around Gong Jiu's pretty face.
Mo Qi looked at Gong Jiu and thought: When I was making it, I only said to make the fur collar bigger and fluffier, so it was so big?They covered half of their faces.Against Gong Jiu's cold face, it seemed fluffy...it became cute.
The head catcher who was almost killed by the "fluffy" Gong Jiu just now: cute...?
Everyone in the rouge shop suddenly had a strange feeling: it seemed that their own existence was superfluous here.
what happened?Why are you still looking at each other? ?
The hidden guards sighed in their hearts: "My lord..."
Gong Jiu impatiently gave them a cold look, which meant: get out of here.
The hidden guards silently put away their knives: I don't want to kill people.
The two hidden guards jumped out of the window and hid again.
Mo Qi came back to his senses: "What happened just now?"
Gong Jiu's expression remained unchanged: "Misunderstanding."
At last there was no knife on the head catcher's neck, he touched his neck with lingering fear, looked at Mo Qi who had saved his life, and was about to say something, when he saw Mo Qi's attire, his heart skipped a beat.
Black robe and silver dust, handsome as a couple.
Rumors circulated in the market that the national teacher arrived in Gusu and wore a black Taoist robe. He was really as immortal as the Holy Majesty said, and he was as handsome as an immortal exiled from nine days into the mortal world.Could it be that... This, this is the Master of the State Teacher, Taihang Immortal Venerable? !
No wonder!No wonder this cold killing star changed in an instant!
Catcher knelt down with a plop, and his knees made a loud noise on the ground, and Natou bowed: "Taihang Immortal Venerable—Master Guoshi is here in person. The villain has been rude, and I hope the Master will forgive me!"
Ximen Chuuxue walked in slowly from the door, just in time to see Catcher kowtowing fiercely to Mo Qi.The corner of Wannian Bingbing's unmoving mouth suddenly twitched imperceptibly, and his eyes fell on Mo Qi. Even though he was still cold, Mo Qi could clearly distinguish the ridicule in the eyes of Ximen Chuuxue, who was also a dull gourd.
Mo Qi began to experience intermittent chest tightness again.
He has given up on correcting this title, after all, it was made by Zhao Zhen's imperial decree, no matter how much he corrects it, it is impossible to change the emperor's decree.
Mo Qi helped the head catcher: "There is no need to be too polite. The head catcher came to this rouge shop and brought so many people, what happened?"
The catcher said respectfully: "If you return to the teacher, it will be Shen Yan, the owner of this Shen family rouge shop. He... is dead."
Mo Qi's brows became inseparable again: Why did another person die?
Gong Jiu was already very familiar with the process of finding the Taoist chief and finding the murder case every time, and said: "This is not a place to talk. Why don't you go to the government office first, and meet with the magistrate here, so you can learn more about this place. circumstances of the case."
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On the way to the governor's office, Gong Jiu was still chatting with the Taoist priest who "hadn't seen him for a long time".
"In the past, when I went out, I would never encounter such a murder case." Gong Jiu walked next to Mo Qi.
Ximen Chuuxue was already a few feet behind.
Mo Qi: "..."
Gong Jiu continued: "Master Daoist, tell me, your bad luck, where you go and die, is it contagious to me?"
He grabbed the whisk behind Mo Qi.
Gong Jiu tugged at Floating Yinxue's tail, and said solemnly: "Master Dao, you have to take responsibility. If I go out in the future, I will die wherever I go, what should I do?"
Mo Qi: "...No way."
Ximen Chuuxue, who was left behind alone, began to think about why he wanted to go out with Mo Qi.At a time like this, wouldn't it be a good choice to stay in Canhe Village and discuss swordplay with Ye Gucheng?
Ximen Chuuxue stopped in his tracks.
yes.He...why did he go out with Daoist Mo?
Shouldn't he wait until all the cases are settled, and then take action, just finish Murong Fu?
Even when Lu Xiaofeng asked him to come out to help him, he didn't follow Lu Xiaofeng around, did he?
Ximen Chuuxue realized that he seemed to have stepped into a fork in the road.
I should go back to Sanhezhuang.Ximen Chuuxue thought.Go back to Hezhuang, and discuss the sword with the lonely city.
Just do what you say, the Ximen owner, who has always been very active, immediately turned around and left.
——In any case, even if he returns to Canhezhuang, I'm afraid that Mo Qi at this time will not realize that he is missing.
Ximen Chuuxue thought calmly.
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The prefect of Gusu, surnamed Mo, once studied under Bao Zheng. He is upright and upright.
After Mo Qi and Gong Jiu revealed their identities, Zhifu Mo immediately said decisively: "Shen Yan's body has just been discovered, and the scene has not been destroyed. If you two want to handle this case, then go to the scene with me to see it." stop."
Prefect Mo spoke quickly: "It just so happens that the carriage is ready. It's quite big, both of you can go with me in the carriage."
Prefect Mo said that the carriage was huge, and Mo Qi and Gong Jiu believed it.It wasn't until they went out and saw the carriage that they realized something was wrong.
Just as he was about to speak, Prefect Mo had already climbed into the carriage swiftly by himself, and opened the curtain, urging him: "Get in the carriage, if we go a moment earlier, we may find a clue! When dealing with a murder case, the most important thing is to seize the time !"
Mo Qi looked at the carriage.It would be pretty lame for Mo Zhifu to sit in alone, if Mo Qi and Gong Jiu sit in together...
Prefect Mo's old face is as serious as the most rigid teacher in the private school: "Hurry up and get in the car!"
Before Gong Jiu could react, Mo Qi instinctively obeyed the elder's words and got into the car.
Looking at it below, it's fine.It was only when Mo Qi got into the carriage that he realized how "big" the carriage was.He was born tall, yet he had to bend over when sitting down, and there was nowhere to put his long legs.
Gong Jiu didn't want to ride in this carriage at first, but seeing Mo Qi's clumsy appearance, he couldn't help but find it funny, so he simply climbed into the carriage.
Three big men squeezed together in a small carriage that couldn't stand upright, looked at each other and swayed all the way, until the carriage drove to the Shen family's mansion, Mo Qi was freed from the small pigeon cage .
A gloating smile was about to overflow from the corner of Gong Jiu's mouth.
No matter how immortal a person is, if he shrinks his arms and legs and bends his waist in a pigeon cage, he will not be immortal.
But that aggrieved look made Gong Jiu feel very cute, and made him want to bully Mo Qi even more.
But now is not a good time, Daoist Mo will be angry if he disturbs him at this time, he still has to wait until he returns to his own territory, and then slowly...
Mo Zhifu's voice interrupted Gong Jiu's association.
"This is where Shen Yan's body was found." Prefect Mo stepped into Shen Yan's bedroom first, "The body has been sent to the morgue for an autopsy. Apart from this, there is no one else. moved."
Gong Jiu looked at the big bed in the center of Shen Yan's bedroom, with two pillows on it.But looking carefully at the other furnishings in the room, it doesn't look like there is another hostess here.
Gong Jiu: "When did Shen Yan die?"
Prefect Mo's voice came from the study: "Yesterday night. His body was only discovered this morning."
Gong Jiu raised her eyebrows: "Shen Yan is not married?"
Prefect Mo: "No."
Gong Jiu walked to the side of the bed, and picked up a long black thread on one of the pillows: "Then... why are there two pillows here?"
Prefect Mo was still rummaging in Shen Yan's study, but immediately came over upon hearing this, picked up one of the pillows and sniffed it, and sure enough, he smelled a woman's rouge.
Zhifu Mo frowned: "Shen Yan is not young anymore, even if she is not married, is it normal to bring a woman back for the night?"
Gong Jiu looked at the corridor outside the bedroom and saw a servant watering the garden, so he raised his voice and said to the servant: "You! Come here."
The servant trembled in fright, and hurried over: "My lord, what's the matter?"
Gong Jiu: "Your lord, do you often bring women back to spend the night recently?"
For a big family like the Shen family, there must be servants to take care of the rooms every day.Since the rouge is still on the pillow, it must be because no one dared to touch the things in the room because the body was found today.
That is to say, on the night of Shen Yan's death, she spent some time with this woman, and only then did she leave behind this fragrance of rouge.
But the servant shook his head again and again: "No! My master has always been single! He doesn't marry, he doesn't ask for a wife, and he doesn't even go to Fireworks and Willow Lane."
Mo Zhifu's eyebrows twitched: "Why, you mean, the woman's rouge fragrance on your master's pillow is left by a ghost?"
The servant's face suddenly turned pale: "Ghost..."
Mo Qi immediately remembered the rumor about the bone girl mentioned by Ji Er earlier.
Zhifu Mo said sharply: "In this world, there are only people with ghosts in their hearts, there are no ghosts that can harm others!"
The servant was about to lose his grip on the watering pot in his hand, and looked terrified.Obviously, Zhifu Mo's righteous words could not dispel his fear of the "bone girl".
Prefect Mo called several servants and asked them this question, but they all got negative answers.
Everyone said that Shen Yan never approached women, and never brought women home.
If this is the case, then how to explain the fragrance of rouge on the pillow?
Mo Qi walked to the place where the humanoid white line was drawn, which was where Shen Yan's body was found.From the looks of it, he should have died lying in front of the mirror.
Mo Qi touched the mirror standing on the table, always feeling a little strange.
Gong Jiu walked up to Mo Qi: "Why is this mirror so small?"
Men are not as good as women, who need to put on makeup in front of the mirror.The purpose of putting a mirror in the room is to straighten your clothes. Naturally, it should be a large floor-to-ceiling mirror, so that you can see your whole body and see where your clothes are not right.Such a small mirror can probably only reflect a person's face at most, with a shoulder at most, and if it takes more than one, it will be blurred.
"It doesn't look like it is used by Shen Yan, but it looks like it is used for women's dressing."
Mo Qi lowered his eyes and removed the bronze mirror.
A rouge box appeared behind the mirror.
Open it up, there are traces of use.
Mo Zhifu pondered: "Could it be that this is for Shen Yan? He is the shopkeeper of Shen's rouge shop, and he mixed many rouges himself. Perhaps, this is him trying out the rouges he made? If so In this way, Shen Yan never brings women back to the house, but there is rouge on the pillow, which makes sense."
Mo Qi held up the rouge and sniffed it a few times, the fragrance was light.
He felt somewhat familiar.
Mo Qi: "It doesn't look like Shen's rouge."
The elegant taste is more like the rouge sold in the shop of the previous rouge boss who didn't agree with Shen.
Mo Qi smelled the incense to Zhifu Mo: "This is not the rouge prepared by Shen Yan, but from Gusu Rouge Shop. The owner of Gusu Rouge Shop does not agree with Shen Yan, so why would Shen Yan try his family's rouge? "
Prefect Mo's guess was denied, and for a while, the mystery of Yan Zhixiang fell into a deadlock again.
Mo Qi walked back and forth a few times beside the table with the bronze mirror: "There is no blood, how did Shen Yan die?"
Prefect Mo shook his head: "I can't find out the reason. I'm going to dissect the corpse, and I want to see if I can find out something."
"What do you mean if you can't find out the cause? Is it poisoning or sudden death from illness? There must be a general idea, right? You all sent someone to search and question Shen's rouge shop. Why do you still say that the cause of Shen Yan's death cannot be found?" Gong Jiuleng Rui's gaze immediately moved towards Zhifu Mo like a silver knife.
Prefect Mo is worthy of being Baoxiang's student, and he is not afraid at all: "It's true that I can't find out. If it weren't for the fact that he was not breathing or heartbeating, from the outside, he seemed to be asleep. The reason why he knew he was going to He died last night because there were servants who saw him last night, but this morning, the servant who went to clean his bedroom found that he had passed away."
"That's poisoning." Mo Qi said, "Death from illness can always be seen. Only when you die from poisoning can the corpse appear as if the cause of death is unknown."
Gong Jiu raised his arms, took a deep breath around his chest, and leaned back, showing a trace of resistance.
Mo Qi sideways: "What?"
Gong Jiu took a look at Mo Qi, and the words came out between his teeth: "It's poison again. Don't tell me, Gusu also has shadow people."
Mo Qi: "..."
There really is.
Gong Jiu smelled something bad from Mo Qi's silence: "Really?"
Mo Qi: "Yes. But this time, I know who the resurrected person is."
Gong Jiu glanced at Mo Qi suspiciously: "Who is it? How do you know?"
Mo Qi glanced at the prefect Mo who was already dazed, and said through voice transmission: "Shenhe Zhuang Murong Fu, the Holy Spirit sent me a letter."
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When leaving Shen's house and going to the morgue, Gong Jiu didn't speak all the way.But looking at his gloomy face, I'm afraid he has scolded Zhao Zhen countless times in his heart.
Prefect Mo probably also knew in his heart that it would not be a good thing to keep the national teacher and Prince Taiping silent at the same time. The less he knew, the better, so he didn't ask all the way.
Under the governance of prefect Mo, Gusu was extremely peaceful.It has already restored the prosperity of Yanziwu in its heyday, even worse than that.The morgue was empty except for two bodies.
One belongs to Shen Yan.Wu Zuo is doing an autopsy.There is another one, covered with a white cloth, which probably has been inspected.
In the empty room, there were only two corpses.The corpse that was covered with a white cloth and neglected became particularly conspicuous.
Gong Jiu asked casually, "Whose body is that?"
Prefect Mo walked over and lifted the white cloth.
A woman's face covered with corpse spots was exposed, and she could vaguely see her glamorous appearance when she was born.
Prefect Mo said solemnly: "This is Mrs. Su."
Mo Qi was startled and said, "How could it be her?"
Prefect Mo glanced at Mo Qi: "It seems that the national teacher has also heard the news of the sudden death of the concubine of the Su family, and also heard of the jealousy of Mrs. Su."
Mo Qi walked up to Mrs. Su's dead body, only to see that her tongue was protruding and there were hang marks on her neck.
Zhifu Mo: "To be honest, when I learned that the concubine of the Su family died on the street, I still felt that no matter how the concubine of the Su family died, no matter how she pretended to be a ghost, it was just the murderer's evidence to cover up her own murder. Doubtful. The person I doubt the most is Mrs. Su."
"For half a month, I went to Su's house several times for questioning, and I always felt that Mrs. Su's behavior was the most suspicious, and she was flustered every time. Moreover, she was also the most motivated person among all the people in the Su family. Originally , I have already decided to take her back to the Yamen for a thorough interrogation, but unexpectedly, just a week ago, she hanged herself."
Mo Qi: "Since she committed suicide, why is her body here?"
Prefect Mo raised his eyebrows and asked, "The little concubine of the Su family is dead, and Mrs. Su, the most suspected one, hanged herself. National Teacher, do you think Mrs. Su committed suicide in fear of crime?"
Gong Jiu: "You mean, Mrs. Su didn't hang herself, she was also killed by others."
"That's right, I think so." Zhifu Mo nodded, and then said a little irritably, "It's just that Madam Su's body is indeed a simple suicide from the outside. Although I have doubts, I can't produce any evidence. The corpse can be detained in the mansion first. But—because there is no evidence that she was killed, not suicide, and without the permission of her family, I cannot dissect her corpse at will."
This is a dead end.
Shen Yan also died for no reason. Logically speaking, prefect Mo could not dissect his body at will.It's just that Shen Yan doesn't have any family members, and she stands alone, without permission or permission to say anything, so Zhifu took advantage of this loophole.
Prefect Mo's solemn face was a bit frowning: "I suppress the news of Mrs. Su's suicide for the time being. Before the death of the concubine of the Su family, there was never any talk of a 'bone girl' in Gusu. I just I'm afraid, the death of the young concubine of the Su family and Mrs. Su...isn't that simple."
He sighed a long time: "It would be great if Madam Su's body could be examined!"
Gong Jiu glanced at Zhifu Mo with a half-smile.
He gently spread out the folding fan he was playing with in his hand, and slowly swayed it in front of Mrs. Su, and then a silver light came out.
The silver knife as thin as a cicada's wing hidden in the fan bone cut a hole at the strangle mark on Mrs. Su's body.
Gong Jiu made a surprised look: "Hey, isn't there a knife edge on Mrs. Su's strangle mark?"
The one beside him widened his eyes in shock.
Didn't you make that cut? !
Prefect Mo was clever, and immediately understood Gong Jiu's meaning: "Let me take a look! Ah, it's true! Then, if Mrs. Su committed suicide, she has to check it out."
Zhifu Mo and Gong Jiu exchanged a look that you understand and I understand.
Even if it is found out in the future that Mrs. Su really committed suicide, it can be inferred that during the process of transporting the corpse, she accidentally caused trauma, which aroused the suspicion of Mrs. Su, thinking that Mrs. Su committed suicide.This is not the magistrate's hands and feet.
Even if the Su family wants to investigate, is it possible that they can still be investigated on Prince Taiping who "accidentally lost his hand"?
They can only suffer from being dumb.
Prefect Mo called another foreman, and both sides operated together.Within a short breath, the two assistants exclaimed at the same time: "Ah!"
Zhifu Mo was getting old, so he was caught off guard by these two screams full of anger, and his thin body trembled three times: "What's the name! It scares me!"
The two foremen looked at each other's corpses, and the older one said, "Three, come and see. The colors of the bones of these two corpses are not the same."
The bones are the wrong color?
The three of them immediately gathered after hearing the words.
Wu Zuo stretched out his fingers to push away the flesh, and peeled off the ribs of the two for the three of them to see: "Their bones are all a little pink."
Prefect Mo was suspicious: "Isn't that stained with blood?"
The younger Zuo Zuo rolled his eyes speechlessly standing behind his master.
The old man took out a finger bone from each of the two corpses, asked his apprentice to fetch clean water, and washed it several times with the water: "Look, it's not blood. It's their bones, which are pink. .”
The young Wuzuo thought for a while, took out a slightly thick iron nail from his waist pocket, and made a small hole in the phalanx: "Even if it's pink on the outside, it's blood-stained. But blood can't wash away the bones. Is it dyed pink inside too?"
Prefect Mo took a closer look, and found that the bones in the small hole were indeed pink.
Gong Jiu raised her eyebrows: "It's poison. Shen Yan and Mrs. Su were all poisoned to death."
He turned his face and was about to talk to Mo Qi, but he saw the serious expression on Mo Qi's face.
Gong Jiu asked in bewilderment: "...why?"
Mo Qi looked at Gong Jiu slowly: "I'm in Bashu, Miaoyin City, and I've heard the story of the bone girl before."
"The story says,
After Ji Er answered Mo Qi's question, he said bitterly: "Master Guoshi, the young one is really obsessed with money for a while, you must have a lot of adults... You, do you have any questions to ask, just feel free Say, it’s not Ji Er, I’m bragging, there’s no one who doesn’t know anything that happened on this street!”
It's been five years since Mo Qi walked the rivers and lakes, and no one has ever been so afraid of him, as if he was going to slap the gavel in the next second, dragging people down and beheading him.
They were all tossed about by Zhao Zhen's imperial decree.
Mo Qi had a headache for a while, raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, and didn't waste any more time explaining that he really didn't know how "the national teacher was angry, and Ji Er's blood flowed into a river", and asked directly: "Recently, apart from that black-clothed man , but are there any other strange things?"
Ji Er racked his brains to think for a while, and said distressedly: "Strange things... But on our street, there are all businessmen, and everyone lives in a down-to-earth way, so how could there be any 'strange things'..." He scratched his head His head and eyes suddenly lit up, "We don't have any on the street, but there is a strange thing happening in the mansions of rich merchants gathered in the south."
Ji [-]: "The Su family, Mr. Su, only welcomed a young concubine back last year. Half a month ago, that concubine died."
"When she died, she was still pregnant with her child! One dead body and two lives! He fell down in the snow in the cold, and the blood on the ground turned the snow red, as if the rouge had been knocked over..."
Mo Qi: "Tell me in detail."
Ji Er saw that Mo Qi was really interested in this matter, so he cheered up and told Mo Qi in detail: "Let's talk about this matter, if we want to talk about it, we have to start with Master Su."
"Master Su can be regarded as a celebrity in our Gusu, and Mr. Bai of the Bai family is a good brother of Tie Baer. People here know the saying, 'You can't be romantic like Su, and you can't taste flowers. Bai'. These two old masters are well-known lustful people in our Gusu. They run to the Fireworks and Willow Alley when they see the sky, and they are rarely at home. Call them 'firework twins'."
"Both of them are elders from wealthy families, with colorful flags fluttering outside their homes, but at home, there must be a handsome and wise wife to support them. Elder Su and Elder Bai are also very lucky. Mrs. Shi, they are all famous beauties in Gusu. Mrs. Su is beautiful and charming, with the beauty of a peony; Fireworkers, who have only been around for a few years, got tired of the family and started running outside."
"Mrs. Bai has nothing to say. She is an honest person who caresses her husband and teaches her children. No matter how much Mrs. Bai messes around outside, she has never seen her making a fuss."
"But Mrs. Su is different. She has a fierce personality and is known as the "Hedong Lion" by everyone in a hundred li. Every time Mrs. Su brings a concubine into the mansion, Mrs. Su has to make a fuss. After that, he will also I dare not lift up my concubine. The concubine who died half a month ago was brought in by Mr. Su risking her life because she had a child of Mr. Su. Mrs. Su can't do anything about it. After all, who made her belly swell How about striving? How many years have passed, and the watermelon should be seeding, but her stomach hasn't moved at all."
"When that little concubine's body was first discovered, everyone thought that Mrs. Su was jealous and killed that little concubine! But..."
Ji Er hesitated for a moment.
Seeing that Ji Er's expression was different, Mo Qi asked, "What's wrong?"
Ji Er lowered his voice, appearing a little nervous: "But anyone who has seen the corpse will know that it is impossible for someone to do it..."
Ximen Chuuxue's cold eyes swept over: "It can't be a human hand?"
Pretend to be a ghost.
When Ximen Chuuxue looked at Ji Er, his back felt cold, his legs trembled, and he said in panic: "Really! Really! That concubine's body is covered with scars, but those are not wounds caused by weapons, but ...But it looks like the scratches from the bones of a dead man's hand!"
"Let's not talk about that little concubine, even the child in her belly was ripped out. The eight-month-old child is in shape, and the head has been pressed with several hand bones. This can’t be wrong, right? That’s the handprint of the skeleton!”
Mo Qi and Ximen Chuuxue looked at each other: "Then, how is this case judged?"
Ji Er smiled wryly and said: "How else can I be judged? I can't let the police go to the cemetery to dig up a skeleton to pay for their lives, right? Everyone said that this concubine was actually killed by a bone girl!"
Mo Qi frowned: "Bone girl?"
Why is she a bone girl again.
Ximen Chuuxue: "Have you heard?"
Full of doubts, Mo Qi said to Ximen Chuuxue, "Yes. I heard about it not long ago. But it's not here, not in Gusu."
Ximen Chuixue paused and asked, "Where is it?"
Mo Qi: "Bashu, Miaoyin City."
That bony girl who always breaks into people's backyards and dyes the rice in the rice jar and the water in the water jar pink.
From Bashu to Gusu... Isn't the scope of activities of this bone girl too big?
Or, there was no connection between the two before, but it just happened that there was a legend of a bone girl in Miaoyin City, and a murder case of a bone girl happened in Gusu?
Ximen Chuuxue said indifferently: "There is no coincidence."
Mo Qi suppressed all the questions that popped up in his head, and asked Ji Er again: "The government hasn't investigated the case of the concubine of the Su family anymore?"
Ji Er frowned and said: "How to check... There is no clue. Besides, once the rumor about the bone girl comes out, the Su family will be frightened into panic."
"Everyone in Gusu said that the little concubine was helping Master Su. Think about it, what kind of enmity does the bone girl have against the little concubine and the child in her belly? There is no reason to kill her! It must have been intended to kill the unlucky Mr. Su, but for some reason, something went wrong in the middle of the story, and he gave Mr. Su a concubine."
"Now that concubine is dead, maybe the bone girl will be attached to the dead concubine's body, and then I will go to Master Su to pay for my life!"
"When the Su family heard the rumors, they were afraid of death. How dare they let the concubine's body be left outside for a few more days. After the official autopsy, they just wanted to go back... They said that the autopsy was over anyway. , let’s hurry up and let the dead body be buried in the ground.”
"In fact, the government also suspects that the Su family's own people did it, but... but the skeleton handprint is really unreasonable! This case has been put on hold until now, and it has not been solved."
Mo Qi frowned: Who spread the rumor? Why does it sound like a disguised form to threaten the Su family to dispose of the concubine's body quickly?
Ji Er looked at Mo Qi's expression, as if he was still not satisfied, so he pursed his mouth and said, "Master, I don't know the details. I'm just a waiter in an ordinary teahouse, not a yamen The arrester with a knife in this case... I know that I am already well informed about this kind of case. If I know more, then I am the murderer himself! If you want to know more clear information, then You have to go to the Yamen and ask."
Ji Er shook his head: "Are the two of you finished asking? If it's over, can the younger one leave first..."
Ji Er was secretly looking at Mo Qi, but happened to pass Mo Qi's shoulder and landed on the window behind Mo Qi.
Ji Er's words stopped in the middle, and the instinct of gossip made him forget his fear in an instant. He suddenly raised his head and widened his eyes: "Huh? Why are there so many people from the government outside here?"
Mo Qi: "What?"
He turned around and looked out the window.
Sure enough, I saw a few people dressed as policemen leading the way, leading a group of yamen servants, walking to the other end of the street in a mighty way.
"Where is this going?" Ji Er didn't dare to come closer, so he stretched his neck and stood on the spot to identify, "Hey, isn't that the direction of Shen's Rouge Shop? Why are there so many people here? Could it be, Something happened to Shen's rouge shop?!"
Shen's rouge shop, isn't it the same rouge shop that Ji Er said earlier that Murong Fu always wandered around in the middle of the night?
Mo Qi stood up immediately, and said to Ximen Chuixue, "Go, go and have a look."
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Shen family, rouge shop.
The deputy shopkeeper was arguing with the police: "Hey, my shopkeeper is dead, so we can't close our Rouge shop! It's not the people in our shop who did it."
"Also, please keep your voices down, I'm receiving noble people here!" The deputy shopkeeper lowered his voice.
The head catcher pushed away the deputy shopkeeper who wanted to come over to whisper to him, and said disgustedly: "What kind of distinguished guest? No matter what kind of distinguished guest, the current murder case cannot delay our yamen's business!"
"Where is your distinguished guest? Tell him to come out! Shen's Rouge Shop will be searched and questioned today, and will not open the door for business! Tell him to go back where he came from, and come back after we finish the search and questioning!"
The head catcher is also a local, so he naturally knew where the VIP room of Shen's Rouge Shop was. After pushing away the deputy shopkeeper, he strode inside, preparing to chase the customers in person.
When he walked to the door of the VIP room, he just raised his hand, but he hadn't put the door on it yet.
Two cold silver knives, one in front of the other, were silently across his neck.
The tightly closed mahogany door creaked open from the inside, and a tall, stern man dressed in snow-white Chinese fur with pearls on the buttons of his breasts walked out.His complexion was as white as jade, and there was an inhuman, bone-chilling chill, even if most of his face was buried in the fur of the fluffy shawl, it couldn't hide the solid murderous aura all over his body.
The head catcher froze into a stone on the spot.I just felt that the other party's long and narrow eyes, when they slowly fell on him, had already sentenced him to death.
The head catcher was covered in cold sweat, his legs were as soft as stepping into the swamp: This... Where did this god of killing come from?
This... this can't be someone from a killer organization that kills people without blinking an eye, right? !
Gong Jiu was still holding the rouge box that the deputy shopkeeper had wrapped for him.
Without saying anything, he raised his chin slightly.
The two hidden guards who restrained the head catcher immediately stretched out their hands, one of them wrapped around one of the head catcher's shoulders, the cold knife was still on the head catcher's neck, dragging him out of the inner room.
The catcher's feet were dragged straight on the ground, and he felt that he had become a chicken about to be slaughtered. When he was dragged out of the sight of the white-fur man, the head of the chicken would fall to the ground, blood spattering three feet up.
The arresters who had gathered in the outer room saw the leader being dragged out like a dead pig with a knife across his neck, and immediately pulled out their knives from their sheaths.
The silver shadow reflected by the knife surface is dangerously and tensely swimming in the Rouge shop.
A fast catcher yelled: "How dare you, thief! How dare you attack the head catcher in broad daylight at the feet of the emperor! Don't let him go!"
The two hidden guards didn't say a word, the knife was still on the head catcher's neck, they just dragged him to the front of the main room, and then they didn't move, as if they were waiting for something.
Before the catcher's eyes were about to be fascinated by sweat, the white-fur man in the inner room finally came out, every step was as if the step distance had been precisely measured by a ruler, smooth and silent.
The Huaqiu on his body is neat and there is almost no wrinkle, and there is not even a trace of broken hair on his head. The black hair is neatly tied in the jade crown, and the perfect cold face reveals a kind of metal-like coldness and no organic matter. It seemed that even if someone splashed three feet of blood in front of him, it wouldn't disrupt his breath or heartbeat.
The warm blood in the chests of the people in the room was almost cooled by his venomous snake-like gaze.
Gong Jiu sat down on the grand teacher's chair in the front seat without slowing down, and said, "Yes—"
He only had time to spit out an initial consonant in his kill character, and the subsequent final was suddenly stuck on the person who stepped into the door at this time.
Gong Jiu's "killing" word changed suddenly: "Yes——when did you come?"
The room that was originally icy cold suddenly rejuvenated.
The head catcher looked helplessly at the man in front of him who was still cold like a piece of millennium black iron, the condensed and sharp aura around him suddenly softened, and even the murderous aura that could not be suppressed disappeared instantly. up.The last bit of coldness was also softened by the fur on the fur shawl, making him appear harmless.
Headhunter: "..."
Deputy shopkeeper: "..."
All the people in the rouge shop who saw Gong Jiu's face change with their own eyes: "..."
? ? ?Wasn't this ancestor like this just now?
Mo Qi was also very surprised. At first he thought that Gong Jiu might still be in Baiyun City, or he might have gone back to his own territory, but he didn't expect to meet him again in Gusu.
It's hard not to let Mo Qi feel that Gong Jiu actually came here with him.
Mo Qi's expression also softened a lot, looking at Gong Jiu who had already put on the fur coat he had made for him: "It's very beautiful."
Gong Jiu stretched out her hands to gather the fur around her neck, and she knew how to use her advantage to bury her face in the fur again, only revealing a pair of black and bright, long and beautiful phoenix eyes.
Mo Qi really looked at Gong Jiu, and didn't move his eyes away for a long time.
So much alike... so much alike.
Mo Qi couldn't help but think of those snow foxes in the ice pond. Every time he catches them and wants to bathe and wash them, they will definitely thrash around until their bodies are covered with foam, leaving only It was the way they looked at him when the bright black eyes were not covered by the foam.
It seems to be saying: no more washing.I am good.Don't wash it.
If you take the opportunity to stroke the fluffy tails of the snow foxes a few more times, they will still protest angrily and aggrievedly.
The fur collar adorned with pearls, like a snow fox's tail covered in foam, curled around Gong Jiu's pretty face.
Mo Qi looked at Gong Jiu and thought: When I was making it, I only said to make the fur collar bigger and fluffier, so it was so big?They covered half of their faces.Against Gong Jiu's cold face, it seemed fluffy...it became cute.
The head catcher who was almost killed by the "fluffy" Gong Jiu just now: cute...?
Everyone in the rouge shop suddenly had a strange feeling: it seemed that their own existence was superfluous here.
what happened?Why are you still looking at each other? ?
The hidden guards sighed in their hearts: "My lord..."
Gong Jiu impatiently gave them a cold look, which meant: get out of here.
The hidden guards silently put away their knives: I don't want to kill people.
The two hidden guards jumped out of the window and hid again.
Mo Qi came back to his senses: "What happened just now?"
Gong Jiu's expression remained unchanged: "Misunderstanding."
At last there was no knife on the head catcher's neck, he touched his neck with lingering fear, looked at Mo Qi who had saved his life, and was about to say something, when he saw Mo Qi's attire, his heart skipped a beat.
Black robe and silver dust, handsome as a couple.
Rumors circulated in the market that the national teacher arrived in Gusu and wore a black Taoist robe. He was really as immortal as the Holy Majesty said, and he was as handsome as an immortal exiled from nine days into the mortal world.Could it be that... This, this is the Master of the State Teacher, Taihang Immortal Venerable? !
No wonder!No wonder this cold killing star changed in an instant!
Catcher knelt down with a plop, and his knees made a loud noise on the ground, and Natou bowed: "Taihang Immortal Venerable—Master Guoshi is here in person. The villain has been rude, and I hope the Master will forgive me!"
Ximen Chuuxue walked in slowly from the door, just in time to see Catcher kowtowing fiercely to Mo Qi.The corner of Wannian Bingbing's unmoving mouth suddenly twitched imperceptibly, and his eyes fell on Mo Qi. Even though he was still cold, Mo Qi could clearly distinguish the ridicule in the eyes of Ximen Chuuxue, who was also a dull gourd.
Mo Qi began to experience intermittent chest tightness again.
He has given up on correcting this title, after all, it was made by Zhao Zhen's imperial decree, no matter how much he corrects it, it is impossible to change the emperor's decree.
Mo Qi helped the head catcher: "There is no need to be too polite. The head catcher came to this rouge shop and brought so many people, what happened?"
The catcher said respectfully: "If you return to the teacher, it will be Shen Yan, the owner of this Shen family rouge shop. He... is dead."
Mo Qi's brows became inseparable again: Why did another person die?
Gong Jiu was already very familiar with the process of finding the Taoist chief and finding the murder case every time, and said: "This is not a place to talk. Why don't you go to the government office first, and meet with the magistrate here, so you can learn more about this place. circumstances of the case."
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On the way to the governor's office, Gong Jiu was still chatting with the Taoist priest who "hadn't seen him for a long time".
"In the past, when I went out, I would never encounter such a murder case." Gong Jiu walked next to Mo Qi.
Ximen Chuuxue was already a few feet behind.
Mo Qi: "..."
Gong Jiu continued: "Master Daoist, tell me, your bad luck, where you go and die, is it contagious to me?"
He grabbed the whisk behind Mo Qi.
Gong Jiu tugged at Floating Yinxue's tail, and said solemnly: "Master Dao, you have to take responsibility. If I go out in the future, I will die wherever I go, what should I do?"
Mo Qi: "...No way."
Ximen Chuuxue, who was left behind alone, began to think about why he wanted to go out with Mo Qi.At a time like this, wouldn't it be a good choice to stay in Canhe Village and discuss swordplay with Ye Gucheng?
Ximen Chuuxue stopped in his tracks.
yes.He...why did he go out with Daoist Mo?
Shouldn't he wait until all the cases are settled, and then take action, just finish Murong Fu?
Even when Lu Xiaofeng asked him to come out to help him, he didn't follow Lu Xiaofeng around, did he?
Ximen Chuuxue realized that he seemed to have stepped into a fork in the road.
I should go back to Sanhezhuang.Ximen Chuuxue thought.Go back to Hezhuang, and discuss the sword with the lonely city.
Just do what you say, the Ximen owner, who has always been very active, immediately turned around and left.
——In any case, even if he returns to Canhezhuang, I'm afraid that Mo Qi at this time will not realize that he is missing.
Ximen Chuuxue thought calmly.
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The prefect of Gusu, surnamed Mo, once studied under Bao Zheng. He is upright and upright.
After Mo Qi and Gong Jiu revealed their identities, Zhifu Mo immediately said decisively: "Shen Yan's body has just been discovered, and the scene has not been destroyed. If you two want to handle this case, then go to the scene with me to see it." stop."
Prefect Mo spoke quickly: "It just so happens that the carriage is ready. It's quite big, both of you can go with me in the carriage."
Prefect Mo said that the carriage was huge, and Mo Qi and Gong Jiu believed it.It wasn't until they went out and saw the carriage that they realized something was wrong.
Just as he was about to speak, Prefect Mo had already climbed into the carriage swiftly by himself, and opened the curtain, urging him: "Get in the carriage, if we go a moment earlier, we may find a clue! When dealing with a murder case, the most important thing is to seize the time !"
Mo Qi looked at the carriage.It would be pretty lame for Mo Zhifu to sit in alone, if Mo Qi and Gong Jiu sit in together...
Prefect Mo's old face is as serious as the most rigid teacher in the private school: "Hurry up and get in the car!"
Before Gong Jiu could react, Mo Qi instinctively obeyed the elder's words and got into the car.
Looking at it below, it's fine.It was only when Mo Qi got into the carriage that he realized how "big" the carriage was.He was born tall, yet he had to bend over when sitting down, and there was nowhere to put his long legs.
Gong Jiu didn't want to ride in this carriage at first, but seeing Mo Qi's clumsy appearance, he couldn't help but find it funny, so he simply climbed into the carriage.
Three big men squeezed together in a small carriage that couldn't stand upright, looked at each other and swayed all the way, until the carriage drove to the Shen family's mansion, Mo Qi was freed from the small pigeon cage .
A gloating smile was about to overflow from the corner of Gong Jiu's mouth.
No matter how immortal a person is, if he shrinks his arms and legs and bends his waist in a pigeon cage, he will not be immortal.
But that aggrieved look made Gong Jiu feel very cute, and made him want to bully Mo Qi even more.
But now is not a good time, Daoist Mo will be angry if he disturbs him at this time, he still has to wait until he returns to his own territory, and then slowly...
Mo Zhifu's voice interrupted Gong Jiu's association.
"This is where Shen Yan's body was found." Prefect Mo stepped into Shen Yan's bedroom first, "The body has been sent to the morgue for an autopsy. Apart from this, there is no one else. moved."
Gong Jiu looked at the big bed in the center of Shen Yan's bedroom, with two pillows on it.But looking carefully at the other furnishings in the room, it doesn't look like there is another hostess here.
Gong Jiu: "When did Shen Yan die?"
Prefect Mo's voice came from the study: "Yesterday night. His body was only discovered this morning."
Gong Jiu raised her eyebrows: "Shen Yan is not married?"
Prefect Mo: "No."
Gong Jiu walked to the side of the bed, and picked up a long black thread on one of the pillows: "Then... why are there two pillows here?"
Prefect Mo was still rummaging in Shen Yan's study, but immediately came over upon hearing this, picked up one of the pillows and sniffed it, and sure enough, he smelled a woman's rouge.
Zhifu Mo frowned: "Shen Yan is not young anymore, even if she is not married, is it normal to bring a woman back for the night?"
Gong Jiu looked at the corridor outside the bedroom and saw a servant watering the garden, so he raised his voice and said to the servant: "You! Come here."
The servant trembled in fright, and hurried over: "My lord, what's the matter?"
Gong Jiu: "Your lord, do you often bring women back to spend the night recently?"
For a big family like the Shen family, there must be servants to take care of the rooms every day.Since the rouge is still on the pillow, it must be because no one dared to touch the things in the room because the body was found today.
That is to say, on the night of Shen Yan's death, she spent some time with this woman, and only then did she leave behind this fragrance of rouge.
But the servant shook his head again and again: "No! My master has always been single! He doesn't marry, he doesn't ask for a wife, and he doesn't even go to Fireworks and Willow Lane."
Mo Zhifu's eyebrows twitched: "Why, you mean, the woman's rouge fragrance on your master's pillow is left by a ghost?"
The servant's face suddenly turned pale: "Ghost..."
Mo Qi immediately remembered the rumor about the bone girl mentioned by Ji Er earlier.
Zhifu Mo said sharply: "In this world, there are only people with ghosts in their hearts, there are no ghosts that can harm others!"
The servant was about to lose his grip on the watering pot in his hand, and looked terrified.Obviously, Zhifu Mo's righteous words could not dispel his fear of the "bone girl".
Prefect Mo called several servants and asked them this question, but they all got negative answers.
Everyone said that Shen Yan never approached women, and never brought women home.
If this is the case, then how to explain the fragrance of rouge on the pillow?
Mo Qi walked to the place where the humanoid white line was drawn, which was where Shen Yan's body was found.From the looks of it, he should have died lying in front of the mirror.
Mo Qi touched the mirror standing on the table, always feeling a little strange.
Gong Jiu walked up to Mo Qi: "Why is this mirror so small?"
Men are not as good as women, who need to put on makeup in front of the mirror.The purpose of putting a mirror in the room is to straighten your clothes. Naturally, it should be a large floor-to-ceiling mirror, so that you can see your whole body and see where your clothes are not right.Such a small mirror can probably only reflect a person's face at most, with a shoulder at most, and if it takes more than one, it will be blurred.
"It doesn't look like it is used by Shen Yan, but it looks like it is used for women's dressing."
Mo Qi lowered his eyes and removed the bronze mirror.
A rouge box appeared behind the mirror.
Open it up, there are traces of use.
Mo Zhifu pondered: "Could it be that this is for Shen Yan? He is the shopkeeper of Shen's rouge shop, and he mixed many rouges himself. Perhaps, this is him trying out the rouges he made? If so In this way, Shen Yan never brings women back to the house, but there is rouge on the pillow, which makes sense."
Mo Qi held up the rouge and sniffed it a few times, the fragrance was light.
He felt somewhat familiar.
Mo Qi: "It doesn't look like Shen's rouge."
The elegant taste is more like the rouge sold in the shop of the previous rouge boss who didn't agree with Shen.
Mo Qi smelled the incense to Zhifu Mo: "This is not the rouge prepared by Shen Yan, but from Gusu Rouge Shop. The owner of Gusu Rouge Shop does not agree with Shen Yan, so why would Shen Yan try his family's rouge? "
Prefect Mo's guess was denied, and for a while, the mystery of Yan Zhixiang fell into a deadlock again.
Mo Qi walked back and forth a few times beside the table with the bronze mirror: "There is no blood, how did Shen Yan die?"
Prefect Mo shook his head: "I can't find out the reason. I'm going to dissect the corpse, and I want to see if I can find out something."
"What do you mean if you can't find out the cause? Is it poisoning or sudden death from illness? There must be a general idea, right? You all sent someone to search and question Shen's rouge shop. Why do you still say that the cause of Shen Yan's death cannot be found?" Gong Jiuleng Rui's gaze immediately moved towards Zhifu Mo like a silver knife.
Prefect Mo is worthy of being Baoxiang's student, and he is not afraid at all: "It's true that I can't find out. If it weren't for the fact that he was not breathing or heartbeating, from the outside, he seemed to be asleep. The reason why he knew he was going to He died last night because there were servants who saw him last night, but this morning, the servant who went to clean his bedroom found that he had passed away."
"That's poisoning." Mo Qi said, "Death from illness can always be seen. Only when you die from poisoning can the corpse appear as if the cause of death is unknown."
Gong Jiu raised his arms, took a deep breath around his chest, and leaned back, showing a trace of resistance.
Mo Qi sideways: "What?"
Gong Jiu took a look at Mo Qi, and the words came out between his teeth: "It's poison again. Don't tell me, Gusu also has shadow people."
Mo Qi: "..."
There really is.
Gong Jiu smelled something bad from Mo Qi's silence: "Really?"
Mo Qi: "Yes. But this time, I know who the resurrected person is."
Gong Jiu glanced at Mo Qi suspiciously: "Who is it? How do you know?"
Mo Qi glanced at the prefect Mo who was already dazed, and said through voice transmission: "Shenhe Zhuang Murong Fu, the Holy Spirit sent me a letter."
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When leaving Shen's house and going to the morgue, Gong Jiu didn't speak all the way.But looking at his gloomy face, I'm afraid he has scolded Zhao Zhen countless times in his heart.
Prefect Mo probably also knew in his heart that it would not be a good thing to keep the national teacher and Prince Taiping silent at the same time. The less he knew, the better, so he didn't ask all the way.
Under the governance of prefect Mo, Gusu was extremely peaceful.It has already restored the prosperity of Yanziwu in its heyday, even worse than that.The morgue was empty except for two bodies.
One belongs to Shen Yan.Wu Zuo is doing an autopsy.There is another one, covered with a white cloth, which probably has been inspected.
In the empty room, there were only two corpses.The corpse that was covered with a white cloth and neglected became particularly conspicuous.
Gong Jiu asked casually, "Whose body is that?"
Prefect Mo walked over and lifted the white cloth.
A woman's face covered with corpse spots was exposed, and she could vaguely see her glamorous appearance when she was born.
Prefect Mo said solemnly: "This is Mrs. Su."
Mo Qi was startled and said, "How could it be her?"
Prefect Mo glanced at Mo Qi: "It seems that the national teacher has also heard the news of the sudden death of the concubine of the Su family, and also heard of the jealousy of Mrs. Su."
Mo Qi walked up to Mrs. Su's dead body, only to see that her tongue was protruding and there were hang marks on her neck.
Zhifu Mo: "To be honest, when I learned that the concubine of the Su family died on the street, I still felt that no matter how the concubine of the Su family died, no matter how she pretended to be a ghost, it was just the murderer's evidence to cover up her own murder. Doubtful. The person I doubt the most is Mrs. Su."
"For half a month, I went to Su's house several times for questioning, and I always felt that Mrs. Su's behavior was the most suspicious, and she was flustered every time. Moreover, she was also the most motivated person among all the people in the Su family. Originally , I have already decided to take her back to the Yamen for a thorough interrogation, but unexpectedly, just a week ago, she hanged herself."
Mo Qi: "Since she committed suicide, why is her body here?"
Prefect Mo raised his eyebrows and asked, "The little concubine of the Su family is dead, and Mrs. Su, the most suspected one, hanged herself. National Teacher, do you think Mrs. Su committed suicide in fear of crime?"
Gong Jiu: "You mean, Mrs. Su didn't hang herself, she was also killed by others."
"That's right, I think so." Zhifu Mo nodded, and then said a little irritably, "It's just that Madam Su's body is indeed a simple suicide from the outside. Although I have doubts, I can't produce any evidence. The corpse can be detained in the mansion first. But—because there is no evidence that she was killed, not suicide, and without the permission of her family, I cannot dissect her corpse at will."
This is a dead end.
Shen Yan also died for no reason. Logically speaking, prefect Mo could not dissect his body at will.It's just that Shen Yan doesn't have any family members, and she stands alone, without permission or permission to say anything, so Zhifu took advantage of this loophole.
Prefect Mo's solemn face was a bit frowning: "I suppress the news of Mrs. Su's suicide for the time being. Before the death of the concubine of the Su family, there was never any talk of a 'bone girl' in Gusu. I just I'm afraid, the death of the young concubine of the Su family and Mrs. Su...isn't that simple."
He sighed a long time: "It would be great if Madam Su's body could be examined!"
Gong Jiu glanced at Zhifu Mo with a half-smile.
He gently spread out the folding fan he was playing with in his hand, and slowly swayed it in front of Mrs. Su, and then a silver light came out.
The silver knife as thin as a cicada's wing hidden in the fan bone cut a hole at the strangle mark on Mrs. Su's body.
Gong Jiu made a surprised look: "Hey, isn't there a knife edge on Mrs. Su's strangle mark?"
The one beside him widened his eyes in shock.
Didn't you make that cut? !
Prefect Mo was clever, and immediately understood Gong Jiu's meaning: "Let me take a look! Ah, it's true! Then, if Mrs. Su committed suicide, she has to check it out."
Zhifu Mo and Gong Jiu exchanged a look that you understand and I understand.
Even if it is found out in the future that Mrs. Su really committed suicide, it can be inferred that during the process of transporting the corpse, she accidentally caused trauma, which aroused the suspicion of Mrs. Su, thinking that Mrs. Su committed suicide.This is not the magistrate's hands and feet.
Even if the Su family wants to investigate, is it possible that they can still be investigated on Prince Taiping who "accidentally lost his hand"?
They can only suffer from being dumb.
Prefect Mo called another foreman, and both sides operated together.Within a short breath, the two assistants exclaimed at the same time: "Ah!"
Zhifu Mo was getting old, so he was caught off guard by these two screams full of anger, and his thin body trembled three times: "What's the name! It scares me!"
The two foremen looked at each other's corpses, and the older one said, "Three, come and see. The colors of the bones of these two corpses are not the same."
The bones are the wrong color?
The three of them immediately gathered after hearing the words.
Wu Zuo stretched out his fingers to push away the flesh, and peeled off the ribs of the two for the three of them to see: "Their bones are all a little pink."
Prefect Mo was suspicious: "Isn't that stained with blood?"
The younger Zuo Zuo rolled his eyes speechlessly standing behind his master.
The old man took out a finger bone from each of the two corpses, asked his apprentice to fetch clean water, and washed it several times with the water: "Look, it's not blood. It's their bones, which are pink. .”
The young Wuzuo thought for a while, took out a slightly thick iron nail from his waist pocket, and made a small hole in the phalanx: "Even if it's pink on the outside, it's blood-stained. But blood can't wash away the bones. Is it dyed pink inside too?"
Prefect Mo took a closer look, and found that the bones in the small hole were indeed pink.
Gong Jiu raised her eyebrows: "It's poison. Shen Yan and Mrs. Su were all poisoned to death."
He turned his face and was about to talk to Mo Qi, but he saw the serious expression on Mo Qi's face.
Gong Jiu asked in bewilderment: "...why?"
Mo Qi looked at Gong Jiu slowly: "I'm in Bashu, Miaoyin City, and I've heard the story of the bone girl before."
"The story says,
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