Outside the imperial capital, there are countless villages surrounding the imperial capital, forming four suburban counties near the capital.
After Liu Xin and his party left the Imperial City, they rode their horses and raised their whips. Within half an hour, they arrived at a small town. This place was similar to the outer city of the Imperial Capital. After entering the town, the roads were wide, the shops were lined up, and there were more pedestrians than in the outer city of the Imperial Capital. There are more, but the proportions of brocade clothes and coarse cloth clothes are different.
Liu Xin and others were wearing fish-dragon suits and riding their horses in the street. People were dodging in succession. Liu Xin had already slowed down his horses, but most of the Jin Yiwei and other officials would just ride their horses as much as they wanted when handling the case. The people had no time to dodge and bumped into them. It's just a collision. Afterwards, if you have official business, you can no longer pursue it.
And more often than not, it is the people who do not hold officials accountable.
Arriving at the door of the brothel, the door of the brothel is of course closed in broad daylight, but this brothel is different. There is a seal on the door, and there are police officers from the suburban county government guarding the door. Everyone, including the madam, is locked up. inside.
The person who died was the son of the Minister of Household Affairs. Everyone in this brothel would not end well.
Liu Xin dismounted and came to the door. Without looking at the token, the clothes alone made the two detectives bow and open the door with a flattering smile.
It was also the first time for Liu Xin to enter a brothel. As soon as he entered, he was hit by the smell of powder, which was so strong that it almost suffocated him.
Perhaps because all the doors and windows are sealed, the air here is much duller than outside.
"Haha, Brother Liu, this is my first time visiting a brothel!" Ning Yi revealed his head from behind Liu Xin. His face, which had turned pale due to vomiting, instantly became rosy and shiny after entering the brothel.
"We're not here to visit a brothel." Liu Xin corrected.
"Same!" Ning Yi walked up to Liu Xin and looked at the surrounding scene.
The layout of the brothel is the lobby on the first floor, which is filled with tables and chairs, just like an ordinary hotel, except that all the pillars are wrapped with various kinds of cloth.
There is a staircase leading to the second floor in the middle of the hall on the first floor. There is also a platform in the middle with carpets. It is estimated that some performances will sometimes be performed here. The situation on the second floor is not clear. The rooms are closely connected one after another. Just by looking at it, there are probably no less than ten or twenty rooms on the second floor, and there is a third floor further up. The stairwells are probably on both sides of the second floor, and cannot be seen from the first floor.
As if they heard the movement downstairs, several rooms on the second floor were opened a crack, and a few pairs of eyes secretly looked behind the door. Early this morning, many people came to the Yamen to seal the building, and there was even a team of officers and soldiers.
First, all the rooms were searched, and everyone was questioned. The old madam was dragged over and slapped a few times, and then the building was sealed. A series of changes made this group of poor people panic.
The old madam was sighing on the third floor and rolling an egg on her swollen face. She didn't know why she was so unlucky. The son of the Minister of Tobe died in her brothel.
She had asked someone to report to this official, but after a search, three slaps in the face, and the sealing of the building, she had no choice but to find someone to back her up, and no one could get out.
While she was thinking hard about what to do, a turtle man quietly came to her door, knocked on the door, and then said outside the door that someone was coming from the first floor. It seemed that he was an official.
The old madam immediately lifted up her skirt and strode to the door of the room. After opening the door, she hesitated for a moment, stretched out her hand to spread her hair, dipped it in saliva, and smeared it on her face, and then she said wow, He ran downstairs crying.
"Ah ah ah, Mr. Guan, please make the decision for me. I don't know how Mr. Tan died here. I was wronged!"
Liu Xin was looking at the furnishings of the brothel on the first floor when he suddenly heard a loud cry from upstairs. He couldn't help but frown. From the sound, he knew that this was a middle-aged woman. He was the last person he wanted to deal with, so he had to keep a straight face.
The old bustard went down to the third floor and came to the space between the stairs on the second floor and the first floor. He glanced at it and was stunned. The crying in his mouth stopped suddenly.
Among the several Jin Yiwei, the leader is Qian Hu, the Jin Yiwei!
The old bustard dared to cry and complain in front of most people, but he did not dare to make a mistake in front of Jin Yiwei.
There is no other reason. Jin Yiwei's methods are ruthless. Sometimes he will not reason with you at all. It is common for him to be beaten and then questioned again.
If someone from the county government came, she would definitely cry and complain first, and then find an opportunity to go out and find someone to support her. But facing Jin Yiwei, she gave up.
Looking at the middle-aged woman with heavy make-up who suddenly changed her face, Liu Xin knew clearly in her heart that this must be the old madam of the brothel. He had only seen him in his life, but he had seen him for a long time. He had seen him for a long time!
"Wow, are you the old bustard? It turns out that the old bustard is not like you!"
Liu Xin just sighed in his heart, while Ning Yi said it directly.
Ning Yi was wearing the official uniform of the Yulin Guards. The old madam had sharp eyes and recognized him. He was also a Qianhu.
There were two thousand households, and one was a royal guard. Thoughts were flashing in the mind of the old madam. She was thinking about how to deal with it. She walked slowly to the first floor. She first saluted and said hello, but before she could speak, Liu Xin interrupted. road:
"Take us to the place where Tan Tingquan died and find the woman who served him last night."
The old bustard was shocked by the coldness in Liu Xin's words and did not dare to say anything. He quickly led the way and then whispered: "My lord, Xiao Hong was taken away by the county government and is not here now."
Liu Xin nodded and didn't say much else. Ning Yi glanced at Liu Xin curiously, and then imitated Liu Xin's look and put on a straight face.
"You guys ask those women one by one if they saw or heard anything special between the time the brothel opened last night and when the officials came this morning."
"yes!"
After several small flag officers arrived on the second floor, they opened the door one by one and went in to ask questions.
"My lord, the county government has already asked about this!" the old madam reminded kindly.
Liu Xin ignored her, and the old madam looked embarrassed. She led Liu Xin and Ning Yi to the door of a room on the third floor. They opened the door and were about to go in, but Liu Xin stopped them.
"Just don't go in. By the way, have people from the county government gone in to search?"
The old madam stood aside tremblingly. This gentleman was too serious and could not figure out his tricks. The old madam felt uneasy. When he heard the question, he quickly replied: "The people from the county government came and searched around. Take Mr. Tan’s body away.”
"Got it!" Liu Xin said and entered the room first.
Ning Yi followed Liu Xin closely. He wanted to learn Liu Xin's detective skills. In addition to practicing martial arts in his life, Ning Yi was most interested in solving crimes.
The furnishings of the room are relatively messy. When you enter, you will first see a huge screen. Behind the screen is a large bed. On the side of the large bed is a dressing table and clothes racks.
The bedding on the bed was randomly discarded on the ground, the pillows were messy, and there were even a few pieces of obscene clothing in the corner. It was probably when the official came to the door in the morning, the woman was still unconscious, so she grabbed her and left.
There was nothing suspicious in the room. Liu Xin checked the window. This kind of window is very easy to be pried open. An ordinary thief can easily pry it open. Ordinary people definitely don't use this kind of window in their homes. The windows of brothels are probably just For the sake of beauty and safety, the brothel has its own guard yard, which is guarded inside and outside. Of course, the guards outside are mainly to prevent customers from jumping out of the window for free.
There is no need to investigate the room because it is too messy and messy. The main thing is to see if other people find anything unusual.
The old bustard followed Liu Xin step by step. Suddenly Liu Xin stopped, turned around and asked:
"That Mr. Tan, do you come here often?"
The old bustard said: "I don't know about this old slave. We found out that he is the son of the Minister of Household Affairs just this morning. We knew that he was the commander of the Imperial Army before."
Liu Xin narrowed his eyes and said, "What do you mean, he comes here many times, but he didn't reveal his identity in bed?"
The old bustard suddenly panicked and said repeatedly: "I don't know, I don't know. The Forbidden Army has rules. You can't go out casually after entering the camp. The old slave and the girl under his command have told you not to ask too many questions when you meet people in the military camp. Asking too many questions is a curse rather than a blessing!”
Liu Xin nodded slightly, no longer suspicious.
Not long after, several small flag officers came back and summarized the information they asked for to Liu Xin. Liu Xin discovered a suspicious point.
A girl said that when she got up in the middle of the night to go out, she seemed to hear something moving on the roof, but she thought it was a cat because the footsteps were very light.
Tan Tingquan came here to live in a private room on the third floor. Above the third floor is the roof.
Liu Xinyan immediately took Ning Yi through the window and came to the roof.
This brothel is the tallest among the nearby buildings, with two-story wooden buildings immediately surrounding it on the left and right. There is a corridor on the edge of the third floor, where you can see the distant scenery.
After checking on the roof, Liu Xin shook his head.
"Brother Liu, what did you find?" Ning Yi asked curiously.
Liu Xindao: "Everything has been found. Combined with the previous autopsy, I probably have some impression of the murderer. Now we still need to ask the girl who was with Tan Tingquan."
Ning Yi suppressed the curiosity in his heart and did not ask any more questions, determined to leave all doubts until the end.
Next, Liu Xin went to the county government and asked the poor girl who had been tortured. He asked her not to hurt the girl again. After telling her that she didn't know, Liu Xin and Ning Yi returned to the imperial capital. It was already In the afternoon, they bought some sesame seed cakes to eat on the way.
Speaking of sesame cakes, the sesame cakes outside the city are obviously better than those in the city, even though they look rough. However, when Liu Xin threw a few copper coins to the sesame seed cake seller, the five-foot-tall man suddenly knelt down and kowtowed as if pounding garlic, which made Liu Xin feel inexplicably uncomfortable.
He really doesn't understand this world.
Back in the imperial capital, they sent people to find Guo Yong and Liu Fu, while Liu Xin and others were having snacks in a restaurant.
Not long after, Guo Yong and others arrived.
Of course, there was no progress in their investigation. Lian Jiawen had just finished listening to music with several colleagues before he died. After he and several others separated, he should have gone to the outer city instead of going home.
He met the murderer halfway, who poisoned him and threw him from the second floor, pretending to fall to death.
"Old Guo, your judgment is wrong. There are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the imperial capital. Such a crude disguise can be easily seen through!" Liu Xin refuted Guo Yong's judgment that the murderer was pretending to be the cause of Lian Jiawen's death.
Guo Yong said yes repeatedly.
Liu Xin gave a wry smile and said, "Lao Guo, and Lao Liu, you are becoming more and more polite to me now!"
Guo Yong and Lao Liu laughed.
Ning Yi asked at this time: "Brother Liu, I really can't help it. How much did you find during today's investigation? Anyway, I didn't see anything, I was confused!"
Liu Xindao: "Okay, then I will talk to you, Lao Guo, you guys also sit down and listen together."
So everyone picked up their stools and gathered around Liu Xin.
"First of all, we went to see the corpse. There were obvious signs of poisoning on the corpse. Tan Tingquan was the commander, and his cultivation level was at least a minor. In order to be more secretive, and to prevent Tan Tingquan from discovering the abnormality and counterattack, the murderer first used incense to stun Tan Tingquan. , and then killed him with poison. We have found traces of this by the window of the brothel, where there are ashes left by the burnt incense. "
"Lian Jiawen used a similar technique. However, Lian Jiawen's cultivation is weak. The murderer may not even need to use incense, so he knocked him out and then poisoned him."
"Yes, Lian Jiawen is a waste. If it weren't for the relationship with the Minister of Household Affairs, how could he enter the Yulin Guards? The Yulin Guards are the top 12 guards!" Ning Yi said. It can be seen from his expression that he is very Disdain for people like Lian Jiawen.
"Actually, this case is very simple. The murderer used poison to kill these two people, and the two people were very closely connected. We should be able to find clues just from the interpersonal relationship between the two people.
The more critical clue is the poison used by the murderer and his methods. I think I can get this through the records library in Emperor Wu City. "
Guo Yong suddenly said: "My lord, something is wrong!"
Liu Xin frowned: "What's wrong?"
Guo Yong said: "That bad guy, he went to the record library at noon, presumably to investigate this."
Guo Yong originally thought that Liu Xinyan would be anxious, but who knew that the latter looked indifferent at all.
Liu Xin said calmly: "I know, let him check it out."
Ning Yi on the side said anxiously: "That person named Lei proposed to investigate this case just to beat you. Now that he has already checked for clues one step ahead of us, doesn't this case have to be investigated by him first?"
Liu Xin waved his hand and said, "No, he can't find out."
Several others did not understand what Liu Xin meant, but Liu Xin did not explain the situation.
Time passed quickly. Guo Yong and others left. Ning Yi also left with full of doubts. Liu Xin walked alone on the streets of the inner city, seemingly aimless, but in fact he was looking for something, a symbol.
About half an hour later, he found the symbol, and Liu Xin showed an evil smile that had never appeared since he came down the mountain.
Not long after, Liu Xin came to an inn and looked up. It was just an ordinary inn, but there were two extraordinary people living in it.
Entering the inn, I found the shopkeeper. Liu Xin looked at him with a weird smile. The old shopkeeper was creeped out by Liu Xin's smile. He thought that this person couldn't be coveting my beauty!
"Shopkeeper, do you think you've gone crazy today? It's getting dark so quickly. I was wandering on the road just now. When I entered a store, it was still daytime and it was night when I came out."
The shopkeeper didn't understand what the young man in front of him was talking about, but the aggressive look in his eyes made his anus tighten.
"Sir, do you want to stay in a hotel or a hotel?"
"Shopkeeper, listen carefully to what I say. Do you think you've gone too far today?"
The shopkeeper's face gradually turned pale, and he said with a slightly trembling voice: "Sir, what do you mean by this?"
"What I mean is that today is a very evil day."
"Yes, yes, you are right, today is indeed a very evil day."
"..."
"..."
The shopkeeper and Liu Xin stared at each other for a long time, silent.
"elder brother!"
A familiar voice came from behind, Liu Xin turned around suddenly, and it was his sister Liu Li standing at the door of the inn.
"My good sister, my brother misses you."
Liu Xin jumped over, stretched out his arms, and was about to hug him.
Liu Li dodged nimbly and dodged the blow.
"Why did you come?"
Liu Li's words made Liu Xin feel certain.
Sure enough.
On the second floor of the inn, Liu Xin met Xuesheng, whom he had not seen for a long time.
"You're here." Xuesheng said.
"I'm here." Liu Xindao.
"I knew you were coming."
"I know you're waiting for me to come."
"What are you two talking about? Brother, why did you wait all day to come here? I bet with my senior brother that you can find this place in half a day."
"In the end, I won. I said you won't be able to find this place until at least evening."
"Hey, I've actually discovered it a long time ago. I was just showing off, otherwise my subordinates wouldn't have to doubt me."
"Brother, you also have subordinates now. Hehe, who is more powerful, me, the sect leader, or you, the Jinyi Guard Qianhu?"
"I am an official Qianhu, the kind with a salary. Do you know how much my monthly salary is?"
"Then I don't know. I only know that Uncle Hei brings me one hundred taels of silver every month and lets me spend it as I please. I will still have some left after I spend it."
Liu Xinxin: #%&￥＊
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay, I feel a little sad thinking about something."
"Are you sick?"
"Junior sister, she's fine, she's just a little upset. I heard that Qianhu's salary is twenty taels of silver?"
"Wow, there are so many, brother, you have to buy me food."
Liu Xin was hit hard again.
After half an hour, Liu Xin finally recovered.
"So you killed these two people."
Liu Li shook his head, and Xuesheng said: "How could I let my junior sister get stained with the filthy blood of these beasts?"
"I knew it. I'm not worried about this. But if you committed such a case in the imperial capital, if I were not a Jinyiwei, who knows whether I would be found on your head?"
Xuesheng said confidently: "My secret agent has already found out your identity. I know that you are likely to be responsible for this case, and didn't I do some tricks?"
Liu Xin suddenly realized: "So you killed people near Huaiying Pavilion so that the final case would have a greater chance of falling on my head."
"Brother, you are so smart, you have guessed all this."
"Ali, I think you are mocking me!"
