Zhu Xiucai, who was searching on the side, saw Qin Shaoyou making a discovery and hurriedly came over.
After seeing a few scraps of skin in Qin Shaoyou's hand, he looked shocked.
However, he is an experienced old night watchman after all, and he quickly recognized that these pieces were fragments of human skin, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, as if asking, or saying to himself: "Is Ruan Xiangxiang a painted-skinned ghost? "
Before Qin Shaoyou could answer, he shook his head again, rejecting his guess:
"No, if Ruan Xiangxiang is a painted ghost and the skin covering her body is broken, she can't possibly not notice it.
Moreover, when the painted ghosts wear human skin, it is as if the human skin has grown on them. Such damage will not and should not occur.
This kind of broken skin is more likely to occur after the entire skin was peeled off and caught in the gap in the bathtub.
Although the painted ghosts will take off their human skin to maintain it, they will not take it off while taking a bath in the tub. They usually take it off in front of the easel to facilitate casting and painting..."
Having said this, Zhu Xiucai remembered the brushes and drawing paper he had just seen on the table.
He hurriedly turned around and walked over, picking up the pen and paper with his gloved hands and looking at it carefully.
After putting the pen and paper back in place, he took out a special compass from his pocket and went around the inside and outside of the table to carefully check and measure.
Qin Shaoyou, who was squatting next to the bathtub, turned his head to look at him after he finished his work. While reading "Daxia Law", he asked with his eyes: "How was it?"
Zhu Xiucai understood his brows, shook his head and said: "The paper and pen are high-end goods, but they are just ordinary objects, without any fluctuations in aura or demonic energy. No new broken skin or fluctuations in the aura of demons and ghosts were found inside and outside the table. "
This situation was expected by Qin Shaoyou, because he did not think Ruan Xiangxiang was a painted ghost, so he was not surprised or regretful.
Zhu Xiucai muttered: "If it wasn't a painted skin, why would Ruan Xiangxiang shed her skin? Is she a snake demon? Her waist looks like a water snake. But didn't the old Taoist say that she doesn't have the aura of a ghost in her body? Doesn't she have some way to hide herself? Have you deceived the eyes of the old master?"
A way to hide?
Qin Shaoyou raised his eyebrows slightly.
This possibility really cannot be ruled out.
He planned to discuss it with Senior Brother Cui after he went downstairs later.
After making a decision, Qin Shaoyou took out a dagger from his crotch. He used the tip of the dagger to pick out the cracks in the tub and picked out a lot of dirt stains. Then he picked out a lot of dirt stains from them. There are a few small black pieces.
"what are these?"
Zhu Xiucai couldn't hold it back and asked.
Of course, after asking questions, he did not forget to help recite the "British Laws".
"Blood stain." Qin Shaoyou squinted his eyes and said, "There is similar blood stain in other gaps in the bathtub, and this is only a small part of it."
Zhu Xiucai was stunned when he heard this: "Why is there blood stains in the bathtub?"
Qin Shaoyou also said: "Yes, why is there blood stains in the bathtub? What does this mean?"
"illustrate……"
Zhu Xiucai thought for a while and asked tentatively: "Ruan Xiangxiang is menstruating, why don't you take a bath?"
"Hold."
Qin Shaoyou couldn't hold it back anymore and uttered a foul language, which even affected his ability to recite the "Law of Daxia", causing side effects of the illusion ghost bead, which made him feel irritable.
He originally wanted to complain that Zhu Xiucai was disgusting, but seeing the situation, he could only stop complaining and memorize the "Daxia Law" again, so that the side effects of the illusion ghost beads did not explode.
Zhu Xiucai saw Qin Shaoyou's reaction and quickly explained: "I don't have a clue about this matter, so I want to change my mind. It can also ease the atmosphere and stimulate imagination..."
Qin Shaoyou glared at him and was too lazy to curse.
Zhu Xiucai laughed, then became serious, and analyzed: "There is blood stain in the bathtub, does it mean that Ruan Xiangxiang used the bathtub to fill the blood? But why did she do this? Was she taking a bath with blood? These are Human blood?”
Qin Shaoyou shook his head. He didn't know whether the blood stains were human blood.
He planned to collect part of it, take it back with the pieces of broken skin, and give it to Shan Daonian to check the situation.
"Assuming that Ruan Xiangxiang took a bath with human blood, where did the human blood come from? Where did she take it and destroy it after taking the bath? Also, why did Ruan Xiangxiang take a bath with human blood? To practice some kind of evil magic ?"
These questions raised by Zhu Xiucai are all critical.
After he became serious, he was still very reliable.
Qin Shaoyou was also thinking about these questions, and suddenly asked: "In the recent period, have you received any cases of death due to excessive blood loss?"
Zhu Xiucai shook his head and said: "Our Demon Suppression Department has never received such a case. I don't know if the government office has received it."
After a pause, he added: "The human blood used by Ruan Xiangxiang to take a bath does not necessarily come from the same person. If she didn't want to be noticed, she could have taken blood from several people. In this case, the person whose blood was taken would not die. , at most he will be weak for a period of time..."
Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered someone.
Qin Shaoyou also thought of the same person.
They had previously encountered students from the government who 'worked too hard, wasted their energy and harmed their bodies'.
The student from that mansion looked like he was sick, didn't he look like he had weak Qi and blood?
Could he have something to do with it?
"Is there any result in the investigation of students in this mansion?" Qin Shaoyou asked immediately.
Zhu Xiucai said: "We are still investigating. I will supervise the relevant personnel when I get back... No, I will check it myself when I get back."
Qin Shaoyou nodded and checked the tub again, but found no new clues.
After putting away the broken skin and blood dirt, Qin Shaoyou thought for a while, and then used the magic ghost bead to ask a few questions to the two maids, asking them if Ruan Xiangxiang had any weird behavior or behavior since he came to Piaoxiang Courtyard. matter.
Under the influence of the illusion magic beads, the two maids thought they were chatting with each other. In addition, Qin Shaoyou was more skillful in asking questions and also used [Skillful Tongue], so the two maids had no suspicion at all.
And judging from their reactions, you can tell that they are talking a lot in private.
According to the answers of the two maids, they usually take care of Ruan Xiangxiang when he takes a bath.
But they didn't notice anything wrong during the bath.
In addition, during the time they served Ruan Xiangxiang, they did not see anything weird or abnormal.
The only thing that happened was that after following Ruan Xiangxiang, they would feel sleepy every now and then.
Sometimes they dozed off because they were sleepy even before Ruan Xiangxiang had rested.
Fortunately, Ruan Xiangxiang is generous and has always been considerate of them and never blamed them.
If this were the other mean top girls in Piaoxiang Courtyard, they would have been dealt with long ago.
After answering Qin Shaoyou's questions, the two maids began to gossip on their own about the overt and covert fights in Piaoxiang Courtyard.
Even though this place is just a brothel, it is no less exciting than Gong Dou.
But Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai didn't have time to listen to this.
They all remembered one thing: in Mianyuan County, when painting skin, the Painted Skin Ghost would first use black magic to stun the maids and old ladies.
It seems that Ruan Xiangxiang should have used the same method on the two maids.
This woman really has a problem!
