The queen must start from the head

Chapter 111 Search in the City
"How brave!"

Seeing the killing move coming, Qiu Qianxue waved sword lights with her right hand, and blocked the arrows that shot at Zhou Jing's heads with all her strength.

There was only a crisp collision sound, and the black arrow fell to the ground. Qiu Qianxue moved lightly, and in a blink of an eye, it landed on the eaves where the arrow was shot from in front of her.

However, the visitor only shot one arrow, and then quickly fled away.

When Qiu Qianxue climbed onto the eaves, she only saw an afterimage of the other party disappearing into the streets in the distance.

Annoyed, she turned over and fell down, looking at Zhou Jing who had packed the monster-receiving bag, said in two words, "I moved a little slower and let him run away."

"It's all right. I didn't get nothing today, we can go back and meet the head first." Zhou Jingshuang said and patted her waist, where the monster collection bag was hidden.

The two told the shopkeeper Xu, who was already pale with fright, to close the door for half a day today and rest at home.

After that, Qiu Qianxue and Zhou Jingshuang left Wushuang's small shop and rushed all the way to their sect.

Not long after they left this street, Yue Yin led Chen Zhong and Chen Shi wandering to this street.

Seeing Yue Yin looking east and west, looking like he was wandering around, Chen Zhong asked with a bitter look on his face, "Miss Yue, we have almost walked half of the imperial city, have you found any traces of the murderer?" "

Chen Shi also asked, "That's right, in my opinion, the murderer has committed two major crimes, how can he still stay in the city with so many people? In all likelihood, he is hiding outside the city. It’s nook.”

Yue Yin turned his head and glanced at the two of them, "What? Do you have any objections to my investigation? I listened to Xiao Chen's analysis clearly and logically, why don't you come to find the murderer, and I'll hang around behind you?"

Chen Shi shyly said, "How can I have that ability, I'm just a little anxious, no, I just want to remind you...".

When the three of them were talking, they happened to pass by a narrow alley. At the entrance of the alley sat a beggar in ragged clothes who was sleeping. There was an old copper coin in the broken bowl in front of him.

Yue Yin suddenly raised her hand, and the two people behind her immediately fell silent. They watched her walk to a nearby beggar, then reached out and picked up a copper coin from the beggar's bowl.

Seeing this, Chen Shi poked Chen Zhong beside him with his hand, and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid it's not good for Miss Yue to do this?"

Chen Zhong shook his sleeves and said, "Then you go tell Miss Yue that it's not a good idea for her to do this."

When Chen Shi heard this, he retracted his head.He would not be stupid enough to seek scolding himself.

Here, Yue Yin picked up the copper coin, put it in his palm, and sniffed it gently.

Feeling someone was around, the beggar slowly opened his eyes and found a young girl in front of him.The other party saw that he opened his eyes, and took out an ingot of silver in his hand and shook it in front of his eyes.

"Did you see it? This is five taels of silver. If you want it, just tell me, who gave you the copper coin in your bowl?" Yue Yin said as he tossed the ingot of silver up and down in his hand. .

When the beggar heard this, his eyes lit up immediately.

He tried to recall for a moment, and said, "This copper coin should have been thrown into a small bowl by an old man wearing a bamboo hat and black robe passing by yesterday afternoon."

Wearing a hat and a black robe, Yue Yin pondered for a moment. If the murderer in the village murder case was really her fellow killer, it would not be surprising that he would wear this outfit, but it still didn't have the convenience of her usual disguise technique. The latter can be better concealed.

According to the knife wounds on the corpse she saw in the morgue and the autopsy report of the foremen, she estimated that the murderer's strength should be around the prefectural level.Although the other party deliberately imitated Li Nan's clumsy head-cutting technique, the incisions on the necks of each corpse were smooth and neat, and it was impossible to do this without sufficient strength.

"Then do you still remember which direction that person was going?" Yue Yin asked again.

The beggar wrinkled his dirty face, thought for a long time, and finally shook his head, "I really can't remember, I can't remember the scene at that time."

Seeing that he couldn't ask any more questions, Yue Yin gave the other party five taels of silver. The latter quickly reached out to take it and thanked him repeatedly.

"Let's go. Let's go ahead and have a look."

Yue Yin stood up, threw the old copper coin back into the beggar's broken bowl, walked out of the alley, and continued on.

Along the way, Yue Yin turned into some inns and taverns from time to time, the same as when he wandered around before, looking for the shopkeeper and the waiter, and asked some casual questions.

Chen Zhong and Chen Shi sometimes felt that she was investigating a case, and sometimes they felt that she was just chatting.

You said you asked the innkeeper if there were any strange people staying or passing by at night. Both of them could understand this. But if you asked the innkeeper if anything was lost at night, whether the guests liked the food and whether they liked taking a bath, this was a little bit confusing. Doesn't it make sense?

Chen Zhong and Chen Shi, who felt astonished in their hearts, just accompanied Yue Yin and wandered aimlessly in various streets of the imperial city for a day.

Seeing that the sun had already set, Yue Yin casually pointed to a streetside inn that looked chic and expensive, "Okay, let's find out here today, and stay here tonight and rest. Tomorrow Check again."

Chen Zhong and Chen Shi looked at each other, and when they turned their heads, Yue Yinren had already entered the inn, and the two followed immediately.

Night fell quietly over the city.

The willow trees that have lost all their leaves in winter are quietly smoking green buds.The insects at the base of the wall also began to wake up from hibernation.The beginning of spring has passed, and spring is coming.

In the study room of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the servant put on a new candlestick and quietly left with a few burnt candles.

Bi Yingduan sat at his desk, frowning as he read the stack of letters in front of him. After reading, he lit the letters with the flame of a candle and watched them burn to ashes and fall into a pile of letters on the ground. In a copper basin.

The room was filled with the smell of burnt paper. Bi Ying stood up uneasily and began to walk around the room.

As he walked, he raised his head and saw the painting "Fishing in the Cold River Alone" hanging opposite him.

He couldn't bear to take a few quick steps, stretched out his hand to remove the embroidery, and angrily threw it into the copper basin on the ground.However, when he saw that the embroidery was about to burn red, he hurriedly picked it out of the copper basin and extinguished the fire on it.

"Alas!" Bi Ying, who was in a complicated mood, sat heavily on the chair behind him and sighed, "Mu Lian, you have ruined my plan after all! It doesn't matter, since you want to participate in this examination , the old man will fulfill you once!"

The night is thicker than the darkness before dawn.

Chen Shi, who was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly, was suddenly pinched by someone, so frightened that when he opened his eyes, he was about to yell. Unexpectedly, it was the little witch who he had only seen in his dream standing at his house with a smile on his face. bedside.

Looking behind her again, Chen Zhong was standing silently.

Chen Shi knew that there must be something wrong with the other party's wake-up call, so he hurriedly put on his coat and shoes, and followed the two of them out.

This group of three people walked on the deserted Huangcheng Avenue where the cold wind was blowing.

Chen Shi didn't wear much clothes when he came out, and now he was shivering from the cold. He just wanted to speak, but Yue Yin seemed to foresee it, turned his head and put his index finger in front of his lips, signaling him to be quiet.

Immediately afterwards, she took the two of them and hid secretly in a narrow alley, staring at the diagonal alley only from the corner of her eyes.

Both Chen Zhong and Chen Shi recognized that the alley Yue Yin was staring at was the same alley where she met the beggar during the day.

"Here we come." Yue Yin lowered her voice and said her first words since she left the house, looking at the black shadow that had already appeared at the entrance of the alley, her eyes showed unprecedented brilliance.

(End of this chapter)