A large thick cloud came from the distance and covered the top of the alley, and the sky immediately dimmed.
Lu Anran's brows looked full of energy due to the dim light, "Plant roots are fragile and can easily be trampled to death, and moss is also a type of plant."
She walked slowly and regularly along the wall and said: "However, unlike other plants, moss will slowly turn yellow after it dies."
Yunqi squatted down and used the handle of the fan to fiddle with the places where Lu Anran passed by and turned yellow. As expected, they were clearly distinguished from other dark green traces of moss.
But that doesn't mean anything.
"This alley is located among residential houses and there are many passers-by."
Lu Anran pointed to one side: "Look at the middle."
The road surface is clean, the blue bricks are badly worn, and the patterns on them are gradually fading.
"First of all, the people living nearby must be familiar with this place. The moss is slippery and it is easy to fall if you step on it. They will not squeeze into the corner." Lu Anran said: "Furthermore, an old servant at home once told me It is said: 'Snakes have their own paths, rats have their own paths', and humans and ghosts also have their own paths."
It was obviously the first time Yun Qi heard such talk, and he raised an eyebrow.
"Usually, the walls on both sides of the road are shaded and cool, which is the 'ghost path', so everyone walks in the middle when walking. It is not advisable to get close to the walls on both sides to 'make way' for ghosts."
Yun Qi chuckled: "What do you think?"
Lu Anran said calmly: "Because of this idea, I believe that ordinary people will never walk against the wall."
"Oh? What will happen to the two ordinary people?" Yun Qi said as if he was deliberately trying to be more serious with Lu Anran.
Lu Anran was not angry, his eyes were half lowered, and he said with a solemn expression: "This person has extremely low self-esteem, an introverted personality, and some paranoia."
"You can read faces from a distance." Yun Qi blinked his peach blossom eyes and smiled slowly: "So you think it's true that he has bad feet. He has been ignored by others all year round, so he has developed a character of low self-esteem."
Unexpectedly, Lu Anran shook his head and said, "No."
She led Yun Qi to look at several moss marks, "Because of the footprints." Seeing Yun Qi deep in thought, she pointed out: "The yellow moss on the left is large and flat, a complete footprint, but the right is small and concentrated, like... …”
Yunqi put his palms together and said, "Point your toes on it."
Lu Anran stretched out his hand and stroked the wall again, "There are traces of dead moss here and there, indicating that someone walked by and pressed it with their hands."
"Not bad." Yun Qi sighed, "Because his legs and feet are inconvenient, he may almost slip like you, so he needs help to walk."
Being able to discover the characteristics of the murderer is a big improvement in the blind man feeling the elephant.
"I'll ask Guanyue to pick out all the cripples in the capital later and check them out." He still didn't believe that a person could really hide so deeply.
The two returned to the same place again, and Lu Anran asked: "What are the identities of the two deceased people?"
"The name of the person whose head was cut off is Li He, who is currently a third-grade deputy general." Yun Qi turned the jade bone fan in his hand, pointed to another place and said, "The identity of the person who died here has yet to be verified."
Lu Anran frowned: "Not from the same family?"
Yun Bei nodded: "Someone from Vice General Li's family has come to the Criminal Division to identify the body, but they don't know the old woman. So I guess it's very possible that she was an ordinary passerby who happened to meet the murderer, so she was also killed by the murderer. Cruel."
Lu Anran sighed in his heart, if this is true, it is really an unreasonable disaster.
"Xu Shaokai is still in prison. The murderer is telling everyone that you have arrested the wrong person."
Yun Qi patted his forehead, "The most troublesome thing is this. Li He's identity is not simple."
Lu Anran looked at Yun Qi, who said, "Li He is actually Gu Chengfeng's old subordinate."
"Didn't Gu Chengfeng and his men all die in Juhai?"
"That's just a way of saying it. It's actually not that exaggerated." Yun Qi explained: "At that time, Gu Chengfeng led 10,000 troops to support General Sun, and Li He was one of them to join the army."
"The pirates were unable to attack for a long time because no one knew where their lair was. Later, Gu Chengfeng secretly sent undercover agents to finally figure out the situation and carry out the encirclement and suppression, but not everyone followed him."
"At that time, Gu Chengfeng took away most of the people, and a small group of people cooperated with General Sun to follow orders from the side to attack. But I don't know what happened. All the people led by Gu Chengfeng died in the battle, and Li He and a few others were able to return. To the royal capital."
"Due to his meritorious service in this battle, Li He was promoted from the original sixth-rank military officer to the third-rank deputy general after returning to the royal capital."
After listening to this, Lu Anran couldn't help but sigh. On the battlefield, you risk your life to gain military merit. When you come back alive, you will be honored, but if you die, you will have nothing.
It is true that Gu Chengfeng was granted the title of General Zhongwu and could still protect his family, but what about the tens of thousands of other soldiers who died in insignificant circumstances? Some of them even didn't even know where their bones were after they died.
A burst of steady and powerful footsteps woke up Lu Anran. When she looked up, a tall and straight figure stood right in front of her.
"Prince Yun." The voice was deep and powerful, like spring thunder roaring in the sky.
Yun Qi smiled: "Qi Duwei."
Lu Anran was wondering why Qi Shang suddenly appeared here, but Yun Qi had already answered: "Oh, I almost forgot, Vice General Li is from Langshan Camp."
Qi Shang raised his chin and nodded: "General Luo asked me to take a look."
Yunqi's peach blossom eyes turned slightly, and his smile became more sincere: "Captain Qi came just in time, I already have some clues here, but..." He scratched the side of his face with a jade bone fan, "The punishment department is short of manpower. It’s too much. Isn’t it convenient for Qi Duwei to help? Everyone is trying to solve the case as soon as possible. Besides, Vice General Li is from Langshan Camp, and Langshan Camp is his mother’s family. As a family member, Qi Duwei will never plan Are you going to sit back and ignore it?”
Lu Anran was speechless at Yun Qi's shameless statement.
Qi Shang was obviously shocked by Yun Qi and didn't speak for a long time. "What's the use of Prince Yun..."
Before he finished speaking, Yun Qi took over the words and said with a smile: "Don't rush and take your time, there are many uses."
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Criminal Division
Qi Shang ordered his guards to search for people with handicapped legs in the capital city. When he returned, he saw Yun Qi lying under the begonia flowers with a small wine bottle in his hands, his posture relaxed and his face full of contentment.
Qi Shang was silent for a moment, then walked over and said, "I wonder if it is true that the prince said that the murderer might be a lame person."
Yun Qi opened his eyes a little and said in a lazy tone, "It may be, it may not be."
"I don't doubt the prince." Qi Shang pursed his lips slightly, his chin carved out resolute lines in the afterglow, his eyes were dark and deep, and his whole body exuded a sense of awe and righteousness, "As a military general, Vice General Li charges into battle and fights with the enemy. Fighting is a common thing, even with bare hands it is not something that ordinary people can subdue, especially if your legs and feet are inconvenient as the prince said, it is even more impossible."
Yun Qi changed his posture, supported his head with one hand, and tilted his body slightly. Hearing this, he sneered and said: "You are right, soldiers are physically strong, and someone as skilled in martial arts as Qi Duwei may be able to chop an ox with his bare hands. "
Qi Shang: "It can be done, but it's not necessary."
Yun Qi opened his mouth. It was the first time in his life that he experienced the experience of being choked by someone's words?
Waving his hand, "For example, don't take it too seriously. I want to say that no matter who comes out of Rourou Township drunk, no matter how powerful he is, he can't exert his energy."
Qi Shang frowned and said, "Alcohol is prohibited in the army."
Yunqi tipped the wine bottle upside down, and the wine flowed into his mouth. After drinking, he said, "Now you have to go back and ask General Luo whether he is strict in running the army."
Qi Shang's eyes darkened. General Luo had talked with him privately when he came, saying that Li He actually went down the mountain privately, but he was dead. However, this matter has a huge impact, and General Luo must treat it with caution and ask Qi Shang not to reveal it.
He thought something important was going on at Li He's family, but he went to drink wine and drank it to his death.
While Qi Shang's thoughts were spinning, Lu Anran came out after examining the body and was talking to Yun Qi.
Yun Qi still had the same lazy and unruly look, teasing others every few sentences, which made Qi Shang inadvertently frown his thick eyebrows again.
"...Li He smells of Ye Mei. This spice comes from Zhenxiang Tower. You can ask their top brand Mei'er." Lu Anran said: "The wine he drank was Qionghua Lu, and Zhenxiang Tower just happened to come out. The first store on the left sells this wine."
Yun Qi didn't say anything. Su Ji, who happened to come over and listened to what he said, stroked his hand and said, "Yes, it's impossible for the murderer to bump into Vice General Li drunk by such a coincidence. It means that he has been planning for a long time. He may have been following him secretly. I'm almost here." Go to Zhenxiang Tower and Luji Tavern and ask."
Qi Shang was puzzled, "Ye Mei is a spice, and it is sold in many powder shops in Wangdu City. Why does it have to come from Zhenxiang Tower? There are so many taverns, how can you be sure that you bought the wine from Lu Ji?"
Yun Qi touched his lips with his index finger, narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Of course it's because Miss Mei'er smells the best. Qi Duwei is also a man. Do you know what it's like?"
Qi Shang's cold and hard face twitched slightly, and he said in his heart: What the world said is right, the Prince Yun of Shengle County is leaning against the greenery and leaning against the red, and he is a romantic by nature.
Su Ji cleared his throat, coughed a few times, and a little blood came out of his sick face, "Forgive me, Lieutenant Qi, our prince is a little drunk."
Qi Shang was silent and drunk before it got dark.
Lu Anran's eyes calmly turned around among the three people. Knowing that Yun Qi and Su Ji were singing in front of Qi Shang, seeing that the two of them had been 'bullying' the honest people, he said softly: "Zhenxiang Tower's Mei'er is a She is a master of making incense, and Ye Mei was made by her. It is said that she made it to commemorate her first night, and it is the only one in the world."
After a pause, he added: "As for Qionghua Dew, Zhenxiang House happens to not have this wine, and Lu Ji is the descendant of Qionghua Dew. No one's Qionghua Dew is more mellow than his."
Yunqi glanced at her sideways and hummed with unknown meaning.
Qi Shang had heard people doing autopsies in the past always talk about the size of the wound, whether it was a blunt object or a sharp weapon, and where the fatal injury was. But why did the style change when Lu Anran came here.
When they first met, Qi Shang thought Lu Anran was the young lady that Yun Qi had brought with him, but upon closer inspection, his temperament and conversation were quite different from those of ordinary women.
Until Yun Qi introduced: "This Miss Lu is a master disciple of Confucius Lei of Jixia Palace. She was ordered by her teacher to go down the mountain to practice. I will give Jixia Palace a face and take her around to see the corpse."
Qi Shang knew about the Lu Mansion in Mengdu, and also knew that the Lu family's legitimate daughter did not join the Yi Sect but actually went to the Yi Bian Sect. This was circulated among the noble girls of the royal capital and had become a joke.
It was also said that the Lu family's legitimate daughter was ugly and weak in intelligence, so the Medical Sect looked down on her, and because of the Lu family's status, Jixia Palace reluctantly gave her to the sect that no one went to.
But until he saw it with his own eyes, Qi Shang immediately overturned all the rumors.
