Abduct a shadow guard to investigate the case

Shen Yao returned to his residence, and as soon as he entered the yard, he saw a man in ochre-brown cloth putting a thin quilt on the drying rack in the yard. The man's temples were already graying, he was not tall, but his figure was very strong. He put up the quilt and patted the quilt with his hands.

Shen Yao took a breath, with a slightly emotional expression on his face.At the same time he opened his mouth to call "Uncle Shi", the man in the courtyard looked up at him, his brows and eyes couldn't hide his excitement, and he quickly walked up to him, "Master, I found you!"

"Shi Bo, the servants of Tibetan Villa will do such things as drying the quilt. Look at you..." Shen Yao said while leading Shi An into the house.

"Wait for them, it's better for me to help you dry it out." Shi An's tone was not too respectful, but pampering. He followed Shen Liuyun all the year round. Apart from being an old servant of Liuyun Villa, for Shen Yao, There is also a bit like a half-elder existence.

"Eldest young master, you've lost weight again, it's too hard to travel around outside." Shi An said distressedly.

"Is there? I feel very happy." Shen Yao smiled and said, "I can truly feel free when I don't rely on my family."

"..." Shi An choked for a while, his brows frowned, and then his expression became serious and melancholy. He said to Shen Yao, "Eldest young master, the master is seriously ill, come back to the villa with me to see him!"

A trace of complicated emotions flashed across Shen Yao's face, and he asked, "What's wrong with Dad?"

"After the beginning of summer this year, the master had a cough and fever at the beginning, and then the fever persisted, and his body became weaker and weaker. He invited many famous doctors in the south of the Yangtze River, but he couldn't diagnose the specific cause. He changed many prescriptions, but all of them had little effect. You can only rest in bed every day, and he kept chanting your name when he was sick... This old servant just came all the way, please go back!"

"..." Shen Yao's eyes obviously flashed a look of pain because of worry, but it was quickly replaced by a calm rationality. He asked Shi An, "You didn't lie to me, did you?"

Shi An stomped his feet, "Young Master, how could this old servant lie to you?"

"However, last year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, you lied to me that my younger sister was seriously ill, and in the end you lied to me to go on a blind date."

"Oh," Shi An lowered his head and sighed heavily, "I really didn't lie to you this time. You haven't come home for more than half a year, and every time you send people to the Wulin League to look for you, they say you're on a mission. You I also know the master's temperament, all these years, neither of you father and son will give in, he has been worried about missing you all the time, but he just didn't say it."

Seeing Shen Yao's eyes flickering, Shi An took a step forward, and said earnestly, "There are no wrong parents in the world, the master did what he did at the time, and it was for your own good. If a man doesn't keep his incense alive, he is not filial, and he will regret it in the future. If you really like... like masculinity, you can play after you get married, the master should understand."

"..." Shen Yao came back to his senses suddenly, with guard in his eyes, "'There is no right parent in the world', if this is true, then all the heinous people, as long as they have a child, will they become good people? If we say It's 'for my own good', why force me to choose a life that makes me miserable?"

"You...!" Shi An's face turned black from choking, "Young master, these words must never be said in front of the master!"

"Hmm..." Shen Yao snorted softly, and suddenly asked, "I'm still on a mission, how could the Wulin League reveal my whereabouts to you?"

"The master personally wrote a letter to the Wulin League, with affection and reason, and the Wulin League is willing to quietly inform the old servant of your whereabouts." Shi An continued to persuade patiently, "Actually, the master is sick this time. , the doctor said that it was probably caused by anxiety and depression. Eldest young master, you should go back to see the master and say a few nice words, maybe the master will be happy and recovered from his illness, and he will not force you anymore. "

Shen Yao thought for a while, and said, "Okay, I'll go back with you. Before I leave, I have to say goodbye to the people at Tibetan Villa."

"The old servant will go with you." Shi An hurriedly said.

"No need, you wait here for my return." Shen Yao said.

Shen Yao walked to Lu Zangming's study, thinking whether to talk directly to Lu Zangming about wanting Xuan Qi again, or let Xuan Qi wait for him to come back.

It would take a month to go back to Liuyun Villa this time, and he was really worried about leaving Xuan Qi alone in the villa, but what if Lu Zangming refused to let go?

Just when Shen Yao was full of distress, someone came out from a fork in the medicine hall and almost collided with him.

"Blue clothes?"

"Master Shen?!"

Both of them were taken aback.

"Sorry, I bumped into the girl just now." Shen Yao hurriedly apologized.

"It's all right, the young master is serious." Lan Yi hurriedly said, she was holding a wooden bucket in her hand, which contained some cups and bowls, "Your highness is in a hurry, what are you going to do?"

"Oh, I'm about to say goodbye to Master Lu." Shen Yao answered truthfully.

"Master Shen is leaving so soon?" Lan Yi was a little surprised.

"Yes, there are some things at home, tell me to go back." Shen Yao said, he looked at the bucket carried by the blue clothes, and asked, "This is the girl in the blue clothes?"

"Oh, I'm just about to take the utensils that need fumigation today to the yard where I work." Lan Yi lifted the wooden barrel up, trying to shake it in front of Shen Yao, but unexpectedly his hand slipped, and the wooden barrel fell to the ground drop.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Shen Yao grabbed the handle of the wooden barrel without letting it hit the ground.

"Hey, this bucket is heavy enough."

"Yeah, I can't even carry it anymore..." Lan Yi flicked his white wrist, and there was a bit of pain and embarrassment in his bright eyes.

"Let me carry the bucket over for you." Shen Yao said.

"This... troublesome son." Lan Yi didn't refuse, and saluted shallowly, with a relaxed smile on his face.

Shen Yao helped Lan Yi carry the wooden barrel to the yard where the maids were working, and brought it into the hall where the medicine smoked.

There was no one in the yard, so the maidservants must have gone out to work.

"Mr. Shen, please do me another favor. Help me put all the contents of the bucket into the medicinal fumigation pool next to the wall." Lan Yi begged.

Shen Yao said "OK", and stretched out his hand to take out the contents of the bucket one by one and put them in the pool.After he put it away, he straightened up and looked back, he was the only one left in the hall.

Shen Yao stretched out his head and called out "Girl in blue", but no one responded.

He thought he had to wait for a while, so he casually looked around in the hall.

There are some utensils and tools scattered on the table in the hall, scissors with red threads on the handles, dirty medicine bowls, upside-down candles, hourglasses for timing, messy balls of thread...

Shen Yao looked at it casually, and suddenly a flash of light flashed in his mind——

He locked his eyes on the two objects on the table, the truth seemed to be behind a layer of tulle, waiting for him to pierce and dig out...

"Mr. Shen, I've been waiting for a long time." At this moment, Lan Yi came out from the small door on the side of the hall. She was smiling, and she was dressed in blue clothes like ice and water, walking faintly towards Shen Yao.

"Miss in blue, regarding the case of Vice Hall Master Shi, Shen suddenly thought of a few questions. Can I ask the girl to answer truthfully?" Shen Yao asked calmly. He didn't see anything in Lan Yi's eyes. smile.

"Oh?" The astonishment on Lan Yi's face flashed, and she raised the corner of her mouth and asked, "What's the problem?"

"When Shen asked you and Hong Ling to prove their alibi, you both proved to each other that you were doing medical fumigation together at that time. You used an hourglass to time the time. Each light leak was a quarter of an hour. After hearing the bell that just arrived at Youshi, the hourglass Another eight omissions, that is, one full hour of smoking, and then Hongling stayed to pack things, and you went to the kitchen to get food and deliver it to the pharmacists."

"That's right." Lan Yi walked to a place two steps away from Shen Yao and stopped, nodded, "I heard that the body of Vice Hall Master Shi was found just after the end of You Hour, so Hong Ling and I did not commit any crimes." time."

"I thought so too." Shen Yao raised his brows slightly and said.

"Mr. Shen, what do you mean by this?"

Shen Yao reached out and picked up the hourglass on the table.

……

With a "crash", the sound of porcelain breaking came from Lu Zangming's study.

The guarding shadow guard immediately looked into the house vigilantly.

A maid said in panic, "The owner forgives the sin", and immediately knelt down on the ground and began to pick up the broken pieces of the teacup.

Lu Zangming said with some displeasure, "Clean up and help me get another cup of tea."

"Yes." The maid frantically picked up the fragments into the handkerchief and took them out of the study.

At the door, she met another maid who was about to enter the house with a fruit plate and snacks. The man asked her, "Why are you so careless?"

She said, "The tea is too hot, I didn't hold it steady when holding it."

"Hurry up and change a cup and bring it here, be careful."

"Ah."

Seeing that nothing serious happened, Xuan Qi and Xuan San restrained their breath and continued to hide.

Xuan Qi leaned on the branch of the tree, suddenly feeling inexplicably uneasy.

something is wrong-

It's not what's in front of me...

too hot...too hot...

The letter that Shen Yao showed herself in the morning...

There are still doubts in the case, and there may be accomplices lurking in the dark...

"!!!" A possibility formed in series in Xuan Qi's mind, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and cold sweat broke out from behind——

If that's the case, Director Dong's accomplice is that person!Mr. Shen must be notified as soon as possible!

Xuan Qi clenched his fists, and the next moment, he saw a few leaves on the big tree where he was invisible, trembling slightly without wind, and the person on the branch had disappeared.

……

"I don't know if the girl in blue has noticed such a phenomenon," Shen Yao said, playing with the hourglass in his hand, "The cracks in the stone pavement in the yard are always more obvious in winter than in summer."

"Oh? Mr. Shen is really observant, Lan Yi never noticed."

"Hehe, then guess what, why?"

"..." Lan Yi's face froze, as if he didn't want to answer,

Shen Yao looked at her, raised the corners of his mouth, and said word by word, "Because it expands with heat and contracts with cold."

"..."

"This hourglass is a quarter-hour timer under normal circumstances, but if you light a few candles and place the hourglass very close to the candles, do you think the sand will leak faster?"

"..."

Shen Yao put down the hourglass, and picked up an upturned candle on the table, "The sky is getting darker in Youshi, it's time to light the candle, just put it away," he said, and put the candle beside the hourglass to stand upright , "Before I knew it, I saved a lot of time every time I counted. Eight times, can the time for a cup of tea be saved? This may be done by you secretly, or it may be discussed by you and Hong Ling Lazy method, no matter what, Hong Ling would not tell me about this matter, and she would not have thought that you, who take good care of her on weekdays, just used her to forge an alibi. After that, she had already made up her mind to inquire about the day when Vice Hall Master Shi You of the drug testing plan, according to the calculated time, leave here in the name of going to the kitchen to get food, and rush to the drug testing stone house not far from here, kill Shi Bozhong when he is not prepared, and design to frame him who was unconscious at the time. The medicine man, divert attention!"

"Haha," Lan Yi's laughter was a little dry, "Mr. Shen said that I killed Vice Hall Master Shi? Don't forget that you just testified that Director Dong was the murderer in front of everyone yesterday. Could it be that, Is Mr. Shen talking nonsense and slandering others?"

"Supervisor Dong is the leader behind the theft of the secret scroll and the demon soldiers, but he didn't have enough reasonable time to commit the crime when he killed Vice Hall Master Shi. Just ask Hong Ling again for your alibi It can verify my inference. I guessed that Shi Bozhong's murder might be caused by Liu Zhao, but now he has disappeared without a trace. It looks more like another misleading set up by you after I started investigating the case. trap."

"If you say so, I can kill, and Hong Ling can kill, why is it me and not her?" Lan Yi said.

"It's very simple. When I inspected the scene that day, I found that Vice Hall Master Shi had his throat cut from behind while standing, and then fell on the table in front. The strength of the wound on his throat showed that the person who cut the throat Her height is not much different from his. Hong Ling is short, but you are tall, so it can't be her. When I met you just now, you walked with such a heavy wooden barrel, and your breathing was steady and not panting. Come to think of it, you were too It's a little kung fu."

Lan Yi blinked slowly, with a slight sarcasm on his face, "Young Master Shen, after talking for a long time, do you have any direct evidence?"

"I really don't have this. If you don't admit it, I'm afraid I can only say nothing." Shen Yao said, but his expression was calm, "But, if you want to kill me to relieve your hatred, before I leave the village, now is the last time to kill me." Great timing, I have seen the dagger you hid just now!"

"...!" Lan Yi's right index finger hanging by his side suddenly twitched slightly, but this small change did not escape Shen Yao's eyes.

He smiled slyly, pointed to the right arm of Lan Yi, and said, "So there really is."

"...You!" Sensing that he was tricked, Lan Yi gritted his teeth.

"You don't really want to kill me here, do you think you can beat me?" Shen Yao raised his eyebrows.

"Who said I'm going to fight you?" Lan Yi squinted and smiled, his eyes were undisguisedly sinister.

Shen Yao, who had the chance to win, suddenly felt an uncontrollable chill.

The next moment, a brilliant light appeared in front of his eyes...

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