Tang riddles

As soon as she entered the door, Shen Sui smelled a strange fishy smell, this strange smell was so weak that it was almost undetectable, but her nose was naturally sensitive, she was quite sensitive to various smells, and she did not miss it.

The furnishings in the house are quite elegant, and every item is placed neatly, without any signs of fighting.

"Where did the victim fall?" Shen Sui asked.

"Please come with me." The butler said, and then led Shen Sui and others to the banquet, bypassed the screen behind the desk, pointed to a place next to the clothes hanger behind the screen, and said:

"Mr. Da Lang lay here...he died."

Shen Sui squatted down, because it was a dark and backlit place, she couldn't see clearly, so she called someone to light a candle, and she held the candlestick to look carefully.

There were a few drops of blood splattered on the banquet, but they were not large-scale, and there was no continuous row of splatters. They were scattered in an orderly manner. It could be imagined that they were the blood splashed by the assassin when he tattooed Li Changkong's back. drop.Other than that, there are not many traces left on this piece of ground.

"Have you ever asked Wu for an autopsy?" Shen Sui asked while checking.

"Because I didn't report to the police, there was no autopsy." Li Changyun replied, "However, when the body was collected, a doctor was invited. According to the doctor's inspection, the elder brother was strangled to death by a cloth strip, and the murder weapon was not found at the scene. "

Shen Sui nodded.She took a closer look at the screen and the hanger again, and then seemed to smell something strange on the hanger, so she leaned closer and sniffed it carefully.Then she asked:

"Did Li Dalang have the habit of incense during his lifetime?"

"Brother incense, it smells like aloe." Li Changyun replied.

"Then, Li Dalang was stripped of all his clothes, where are his clothes?" Shen Sui asked again.

"The clothes are dragged all over the floor." When Li Changyun answered this question, he showed a strange expression, "From the bookshelf on that side, it extends all the way to the back of this screen."

"Why did you take away the clothes?" Shen Sui asked with a frown, but she didn't see the scene described by Li Changyun at the scene.

Li Changyun pursed his lips, as if he was a little embarrassed to speak, he looked at Li Jinyue, and Li Jinyue was puzzled.In the end, she leaned closer to Shen Sui's ear and whispered:

"Because, it's really unsightly, those clothes... have big brother's semen on them."

Shen Sui: "..."

She got up and called Li Changyun to the corner of the room for a secret talk:

"When Li Dalang was alive, with whom did he have a flirtatious behavior?"

"We don't know either. Eldest brother has been single all these years. His sister-in-law has been away for many years, and there is no concubine at home. He is a clean and self-sufficient person, and rarely goes to the brothel Chu Pavilion. I really can't imagine that my elder brother will die... ..." Li Changyun couldn't continue.

"Cough..." Shen Sui cleared his throat, and asked with a straight face, "Have the doctors seen Li Dalang's private parts?"

"Oh!" Li Changkong realized what Shen Sui wanted to know, and replied with embarrassment, "This matter is indeed strange. Eldest brother has not had sex with anyone for several years, and this intercourse is quite extreme. According to doctors, elder brother Maybe there was a two-hour intercourse process before he died, and everyone was drained, so the room was messed up."

"The room is messy? So, the orderly scene I see now is not what it looked like back then." Shen Sui raised his eyebrows and asked.

Li Changyun showed bitterness, and said: "We have no choice. If we want to keep the scene, then this room really cannot be entered. The family scandal must not be publicized. We really don't want to publicize the way my elder brother died."

"How far have you cleaned?" Shen Sui asked with a frown.

"We took away the clothes dragged all over the floor and burned them together. We replaced all the dirty things in the house, and we also replaced the banquet, except for the place where my elder brother fell behind the screen."

Shen Sui sighed, and said, "Now, I have nothing to investigate."

Li Changyun was embarrassed and also a little guilty.After murmuring for a moment, he said:

"We still have the incense burner in the house at that time, would you like to see it?"

Shen Sui's eyes lit up, and he said, "Where is it?"

"It's on the desk. We didn't dare to throw away the incense inside." Li Changyun pointed to the desk not far away.

Shen Sui hurriedly walked to the case, knelt down, and carefully inspected the ashes of the incense powder inside.The rest of the people saw the two of them chatting in the corner for a while, and they didn't talk to them too much. When they were bored, they suddenly saw Shen Sui making a move, so they all crowded around curiously.

Shen Sui seemed very cautious, after opening the lid of the censer, he first brushed the smell with his hand to his nose and sniffed lightly.She frowned, tasted it carefully, and said:

"There is something wrong with this fragrance." Then she took out her leather gloves from the leather pouch at her waist and put them on. She squeezed out some powder and put it on the palm of her hand to grind it. When she observed carefully with the light, she could see golden particles shining among them.

"It's the powder of Jinzuifang again." She said.When Li Jinyue heard this, she regained her spirits.She moved to Shen Sui's side and wanted to whisper something to her, but Shen Sui hurriedly stepped aside and said softly:

"Princess, don't come close to me. This time, Jinzuifang is an extremely powerful aphrodisiac, and even a little bit of it will kill you."

Li Jinyue was startled and quickly moved away.

Shen Sui carefully flicked off the powder on his gloves, then took out a stack of square oiled papers cut into the size of a palm from the leather pouch, took out one of them, and used a dry brush on the table to pour some incense burner powder into the oiled paper, then wrapped it carefully , placed in the leather pouch at the waist.These powders, she wants to take back to let the bride study and study.

"Li Sanlang, may I ask, did any strangers come in and out of the house before the incident?" Shen Sui stood up and asked.

"There are very few strangers coming in and out of Changfangyuan. It's just that in recent days, my uncle (referring to the old Patriarch) has been seriously ill, and there are more doctors coming and going. It's my elder brother who is receiving these doctors."

"Is there a woman?"

"The doctors are all men, and they only have some medicine boys around them. There are no women." Li Changyun shook his head.But when he said this, he suddenly reacted and exclaimed: "Could it be!"

"It seems to be true. Someone pretended to be a doctor who treated the old master and sent the assassin in. This assassin disguised himself as a man, pretending to be a medicine boy, and found a reason to lure Li Dalang to the academy, and then... assassinated him." Shen Sui said .

Although she came to a preliminary conclusion, she couldn't figure it out for a moment. If she just wanted to assassinate Li Changkong, why would she use such an obscene method?Even if the killer has a special habit, practicing the evil art of harvesting yang and nourishing yin, he needs to have sex with a man to gain the power.But is this kind of person suitable to be sent as an assassin?Assassination requires a one-shot kill, flee immediately after succeeding, the less noise the better.This assassin was so unbearable that the assassination scene was in a mess, and she stayed at the assassination site for at least two hours. For such a long time, too many variables would affect her assassination.

Anna Yi sent such a female assassin to assassinate Li Changkong, there must be other purposes or reasons.

They asked and answered, it seemed that the incident was already clear, but everyone was still at a loss.Li Jinyue couldn't help asking:

"What are you two talking about? We don't understand."

Shen Sui looked at Li Changyun, Li Changyun seemed to be struggling, but finally compromised, nodded, and agreed with Shen Sui to tell everyone that he didn't have the face to say it again anyway.

So Shen Sui very calmly told everyone about his discovery and deduction just now, as well as the facts covered up by Li Changyun.Everyone fell into an awkward silence when they heard the words.Especially Li Jinyue, Xu Jie and Cheng Yan, who were all virgins present, couldn't bear such an explicit topic, and their faces were flushed.And Zhang Jiuling, Zhang Zheng, who have always behaved elegantly and admired the manners of a gentleman, shook their heads again and again, which was very difficult to accept.

"This matter, first investigate here. Now that Jinzuifang has been found out, the murderer is someone related to the cult organization. This is an indisputable fact. I am deeply sorry for the death of Li Dalang, and I will do my best to catch the murderer , give the Li family a fair result." Shen Sui finally said.

What she said was like a cliché used by officials to shirk responsibility, but everyone present understood that Shen Sui's words were actually very real.Whether the murderer can be caught depends on whether Shen Sui can uproot the cult.Whether or not the cult can be uprooted is also related to Shen Sui's future and destiny. Right now, not only the Li family but also Shen Sui are most concerned about this matter.

What's more, the fate of Shen Sui and Li Jinyue are closely related, at least Li Jinyue will never doubt her determination.

A group of people left the Changfang courtyard with a heavy heart.Li Changyun couldn't leave the Li family, so he temporarily bid farewell to Shen Sui, Li Jinyue and others.Li Jinyue and others, under the leadership of Zhang's father and son, went to the camp of the Protectorate of Youzhou to take up their duties. The Xue brothers had been waiting in the camp for a long time.

Shen Sui rode a horse and walked side by side with Li Jinyue.Li Jinyue looked at her profile and asked:

"Wait a minute, can you enter the camp with me?"

"I won't go. I'm not in the army. I have no reason to enter the barracks. I'll give you a ride. I'll go to Fan Yang's Qianyumen branch first. I don't want Xue Brother Shi knows about our relationship."

Li Jinyue nodded:

"The Xue brothers have closed their doors to thank guests these days, and they have nothing to do with themselves. It's strange. Let me inquire for you and see if they have fallen into the ways of a cult."

"Sigh... It's really hard to say. If the Xue brothers are recruited, the whole Youzhou will be in trouble. Even if you and your father-in-law come, it will be difficult to control the situation." Shen Sui said worriedly.

Zhang Jiuling and Zhang Zheng rode in front, Zhang Zheng tilted his head slightly, looked behind him out of the corner of his eye, then leaned into his father's ear and whispered:

"Father, our new son-in-law is quite close to the princess."

Zhang Jiuling's eyes darkened slightly, and he shook his head imperceptibly, signaling Zhang Zheng not to talk about it here.But this generation of famous ministers cast a shadow deep in their hearts.

I hope that he is worrying unfoundedly.

Arriving in Fanyang City last night, it was the first time for Shen Sui to take a look at this important border town today.Fanyang City has a wide city, solid roads, high walls and deep moats. At first glance, it looks like a steel city created by years of armament wars.Most of the buildings in the city are built with bricks and rammed buildings, and there are fewer wooden buildings, which is to prevent fire attacks.The architecture also has a strong exotic style, especially the shadow of Sogdian architecture.There are more northern ethnic groups here, and many businessmen can be seen coming and going, but the level of excitement is obviously far less than that in the Central Plains.

Li Jinyue was going to the camp located in the western suburbs of the city, so Shen Sui parted with them on the main road in the city. Li Jinyue, Zhang's father and son headed west of the city, while Shen Sui rode slowly towards the east of the city.

In the dry north, there is not much rain in summer, and the sun is shining brightly above his head, so Shen Sui put on a bamboo hat to shade the sun.Hu Tuo followed behind her, looking at everything here, he couldn't help thinking of his hometown.

"Hutuo, we will definitely go to the Western Regions within this year, do you want to go home and have a look?" Shen Sui could not help asking after seeing the change in Hutuo's mood.

"Dalang, I have no home for a long time. Wherever you are, that is Hutuo's home." Hutuo said with a smile.

"Hehehehe..." Shen Sui laughed and teased him, "Where did you learn to be glib."

Hu Tuo didn't answer, just smiled, touched his bearded face, and sniffed, which showed that he was very happy.

Turning around an intersection, Shen Sui and Hu Tuo suddenly heard shouting and cursing from ahead.When they looked up, they saw that in the middle of the road not far away, someone seemed to have a dispute, surrounded by scattered people watching the excitement.

Suddenly there was a mournful and howling female voice, Shen Sui's heart skipped a beat, he frowned, jumped off the horse, threw the whip and rein to Hutuo, and said:

"I gonna go see."

Then she quickly ran to the crowded place.

She pushed aside the two men standing in front of her, and saw the scene inside the crowd.There are three men in Sogdian clothes surrounding a woman in the center.

The leading man was a tall fat man. This fat man was extremely fat, his clothes were stretched tightly on his body, his face was full of beards, and he looked very strange.He spoke official Chinese with a strange accent, and said to the woman who fell on the ground and kept crying:

"Why are you crying? I want to marry you and be a wife, not to eat you."

"Let me go, let me go..." The woman just kept crying.

The fat man seemed very distressed. He scratched his head and looked back at the two brothers beside him.One of the men said:

"Jaluoshan, what are you waiting for, just take this woman back. Anyway, you paid for it."

"Brother is talking about..." The fat man laughed foolishly, and went to pull the woman again.The woman was crying more and more terribly, the big fat man seemed to get angry, angrily pulled the woman up, and shouted:

"Don't cry! I'm upset!"

At this moment, a hand was placed on his shoulder:

"My lord, can you please let go?"

The fat man called Yaluoshan looked back, and saw a handsome man with bright eyes and white teeth, looking at him with a smile that was not a smile.

"Who are you?" the fat man asked.

"It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that you let this woman go."

"Why, I bought her!" Ya Luoshan said angrily.

"Hey, what are you talking nonsense with him. You, get the hell out! This is what our Fan Yangya does, so stop meddling in your own business!" The person next to the fat man whom he called the big brother said arrogantly.

The fat man patted his elder brother on the shoulder, motioning for his elder brother to let him speak.He took out a sheepskin contract from his sleeve, handed it under Shen Sui's nose, and said:

"Look, it's clearly written in the contract. I'm not bullying anyone. She is a slave I bought. I'll take her home and marry her as my wife. What does it matter to you?"

"How much is this girl, I'll buy it." Shen Sui said with a smile, not going to accept the sheepskin contract.

"I won't sell it!" The big fat man was even more angry.

"Why not sell? It's a free market."

"Because it's a free market, whether I sell or not is my/freedom." The big fat man said.

Heh, what a fat man with eloquent teeth.

"Well, what if I insist on you selling it today?" Shen Sui said.

"You say I bully people, what about you? I see that you seem to be a master. I won't fight with you. Anyway, I won't sell. If you want to force me, I will report to the police. Anyway, you don't care." The big fat man is very rascal typical.

Shen Sui glanced at the woman, seeing her pleading eyes, sighed and said:

"Okay, then tell me, how can you sell this woman."

The fat man thought for a while and said:

"Well, there is a rule in our dental shop. The servants who have just bought must cut their fingers and put a bowl of blood. You cut your fingers and let the blood, and pay three times the price, and I will sell it to you."

"You bloated! Don't give you any color and you will open a dyeing workshop!" Hu Tuo who rushed to Shen Sui's side said angrily.

Shen Sui stretched out her hand to stop Hutuo, then pulled out the small knife on the left side of her belt, and cut the palm of her right hand, immediately bleeding profusely, she raised her right hand to show that big fat man Yaluoshan, and then signaled to Hutuo Tuo gave her a piece of gold leaf, handed it to Yaluoshan, and said:

"How? To sell or not to sell?"

The big fat man twitched, took the gold leaf to look at it, and said: "You are a real man."

As he said that, he really stopped entanglement, and greeted the two brothers beside him to leave.

"Da Lang! What's the matter with you?" Hu Tuo anxiously found a scarf and bandaged Shen Sui's bleeding right hand.

"This fat man is interesting." Shen Sui said with a smile.

The author has something to say: an obese fat man, an interesting soul.