Placid Chang'an

On the day when he was released from the office, Su Cen went straight to Qu Ling'er's bedroom.

Qu Ling'er was pulling Ah Fu to play hand-to-hand games, relying on her flexibility to bully Ah Fu, Ah Fu's hand was swollen from the beating, and she hadn't touched Qu Linger yet.

Seeing Su Cen coming in, Ah Fu immediately took the opportunity to stand up: "Second Young Master, you are back."

Su Cen didn't make a sound, walked straight to Qu Ling'er, and stared at him coldly.

Qu Ling'er felt chills running down her back from the overwhelming momentum of the iceberg, she didn't dare to breathe out for a moment, she lowered her head and admitted her mistake: "I was wrong, I was wrong, at worst, I'll let Ah Fu call back."

"Where did you go last night?"

"Ah?" Qu Ling'er was taken aback for a moment, then turned her gaze away angrily, "I didn't go anywhere, just...sleep."

"I heard your door rang at three o'clock last night, and I didn't come back until half an hour later." Su Cen's eyes turned cold, "It's enough to walk back and forth from here to Dongshi in half an hour, and then kill someone or something, yes no?!"

"Murder?" Qu Ling'er suddenly raised her head, "Who died?"

"Don't you know who you killed?" Su Cen pulled Qu Ling'er's slender wrist, and pulled her up from the bed, "If you have anything to say, go to Dali Temple. When the time comes, the torture will come. By the way Explain who wants to kill you with your injuries and who wants you to assassinate King Ning."

"Su Cen, Su Cen, Brother Su!" Qu Ling'er was in a hurry, and quickly broke away from Su Cen's hand, "I said, I said, I went out last night, I just went out...to drink some wine."

"Drink?" Su Cen frowned.

Qu Ling'er looked at Su Cen as if begging for mercy, "If you don't believe me, ask Ah Fu, we went together."

Su Cen looked back at Ah Fu.

Ah Fu was dissatisfied with this man's ungratefulness and dragged him into the water, and complained: "Not only did he drink, but he also ate a plate of orchid beans and three taels of beef."

Qu Ling'er smiled apologetically: "It's just that I've been drinking porridge every day and the birds have faded out of my mouth, but brother Su, I promise, I never killed anyone."

"Where did you drink?"

Qu Ling'er hurriedly replied: "In a dark workshop in Pingkangfang, there is a curfew in the East Market, and it has been closed for a long time. That dark workshop is secretly opened at night, and you can drink and listen to music."

Su Cen ignored him and stared at Ah Fu: "He's been with you all this time?"

Ah Fu nodded: "I went out to pee, and it took only a stick of incense before and after, so I couldn't reach Dongshi."

Pingkangfang is only one square away from Dongshi, but it is impossible to walk back and forth with a stick of incense and kill people along the way.

When mentioning peeing, Qu Ling'er suddenly remembered: "Could it be a woman who died?"

Su Cen finally turned around, "How to say?"

"While I was peeing, I heard someone next door say they were going to kill that crazy bitch..."

Su Cen raised his head suddenly, his eyes were as bright as a lone star in the dark night, "What else did he say?"

Qu Ling'er frowned and thought about it, "I didn't pay attention to what you said about ruining your reputation and affecting your career. I thought it was just a joke."

"What time was it?"

"Didn't you say that it was three o'clock when I went out, probably around midnight."

"Zishi Dongshi's gate was closed long ago, how did he get in?"

Qu Ling'er said in shock: "By the way, the person who talked to him said that he can take him into Dongshi!"

Su Cen was immediately excited when he heard it, and pulled Qu Ling'er's sleeve and asked anxiously, "Who is he and what does he look like?"

Qu Ling'er frowned, "I was urinating at the time, and there was a latrine separating him. How would I know what he looked like? But the voice sounded like a young man, probably not more than 40 years old, and he must have kung fu."

Su Cen asked, "Can you hear that too?"

"The footsteps of martial arts practitioners are light and steady, which is beyond the reach of others," Qu Ling'er looked proud, "Practitioners like us can get a general idea of ​​people just by listening to their footsteps. Yun Feiyan, Taxue Wuhen, there are very few people in this world who can catch up to me..."

Su Cen waved his hand to interrupt someone's bragging: "Did you get to the east city wall with your skills?"

"Of course I'm fine."

"Then how about bringing one more person?"

Qu Ling'er was speechless: "This...Brother Su, it's not that I can't do it. Unless the Immortal Da Luo is here, no one will be able to do it. Qinggong pays attention to a person who is as light as a swallow, and how can you perform it with someone alone? ?”

Su Cen nodded, he has seen Qu Linger's lightness kung fu before, if even Qu Linger can't get up, that person must not have climbed over the wall.Then it can only be that the gatekeepers have been bribed.He had already concluded that there was a third person involved in this case, so this third person who had not yet appeared and bribed the doorman must be the key.

Su Cen, who understood what he wanted to ask, also breathed a sigh of relief, and finally asked, "Why did you bring Ah Fu with you when you went to drink?"

Qu Ling'er curled her lips aggrievedly: "...I don't have any money."

Su Cen made a sharp look at him, Ah Fu was startled, and hurriedly said, "It's all my monthly money, not my family's money."

"Next time he messes up something else, just drive him out." Su Cen narrowed his eyes sinisterly, "Why are you still standing there, make porridge, and let me know that he went out to drink secretly, and you will follow him from now on." Let him drink plain porridge together."

As soon as he left the room, he turned around and said, "Report that dark workshop to the public in a while, and tomorrow I will take people there to seal it up."

Qu Linger: "..."

Early the next morning, Su Cen rushed to Chengmen Lang to borrow the roster of the gatekeepers on duty that day, thinking of bringing people there to bring them back for interrogation one by one. When he arrived at Dali Temple, he found that there were few people. Mother came out from the temple.

Su Cen asked, "Where are people?"

Xiao Sun sighed, "You guessed right yesterday, there was another murder case."

Su Cen was shocked and asked what was going on.

Xiaosun only said that someone came to report the case early in the morning, but Mr. Song didn't even come to the Yamen, and rushed to the scene directly from home.

Su Cen asked where the scene was, put the roster in Xiao Sun's arms, and hurried out.After taking two steps, he turned around and looked at Xiu Niang who was following Xiao Sun, "Then what about her?"

"What else can I do?" Xiao Sun spread his hands, "A lunatic can't ask anything, and it's a waste of dry food to lock him up. Since she didn't kill him, Master Song let him go."

Su Cen nodded. There was indeed no better way. Just as he was about to turn around, he froze in place, a chill blasted from his scalp.

Those eyes were hidden behind the messy temple hair, looking at him clearly, determined and serious, without any dementia at all.

But a moment later, the man smiled silly again and looked away.

"Master Su?" Xiao Sun called out.

Su Cen regained consciousness, hesitated again and again, turned and walked outside.

The scene was behind the Gongyuan, to be precise, on a tree with a crooked neck behind the Gongyuan.

People are hanged.

When Su Cen rushed over, there was already a circle of people around, and the corpse had already been untied from the tree.

Seeing Su Cen's eyeballs almost popping out, Song Jiancheng shouted, "What are you doing here? Who told you to come?"

"Of course it is to assist in the investigation," Su Cen smiled, and squatted down to examine the corpse.

Song Jiancheng was speechless with his mouth open, obviously not just eating flies.What does it mean that one misstep will cause eternal hatred, why provoke him if there is nothing wrong? !

"Hey, don't touch..." Wu Zuo, who was nearing sixty years old, hadn't finished speaking, Su Cen had already started.

"The deceased's clothes were messy, there were signs of fighting, his face was reddish purple, his mouth and eyes were open, his tongue touched his teeth, and his hyoid bone was broken. He had the same wound on his neck as Lu Liang's, but this time the wound was changed to the left side. There was nothing else on his body. Wound."

"Come here and do me a favor." Su Cen called the little official who was standing beside him, and the two of them worked together to lift up the already stiff jaw.Su Cen took a look and couldn't help frowning.

Two cord marks.

"Turn it over." After looking at the front, the two turned the body over and checked the back. One cord mark was attached behind the left and right ears, while the other was attached to the back of the neck.

Wu Zuo looked at Su Cen's proficiency, and was worried that someone would steal his job, so he hurriedly asked the people beside him, "What's the background of this person?"

The person who was asked snorted softly, "The champion of the new division."

Su Cen didn't care about the contempt in that man's tone. After examining the corpse, he took a look at the rope beside him, and saw an obvious knot on the three-foot rope.

"Did you break it when you put him down?" Su Cen asked.

"How can it be?" the little official replied, "I brought it with me in the first place."

"How high is the human hanging?"

"Less than two feet off the ground."

Putting down the rope, Su Cen wiped his hands on the hem of his clothes indifferently,

He stood up and asked, "What about the identity of the deceased?"

The clerk at the side replied casually: "The deceased, Yuan Shaochun, was from Binzhou, an official who took part in the examination this year, and was born as a second-class Jinshi..."

He was stunned in the middle of the conversation, and secretly glanced at Song Jiancheng, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he hurriedly shut up.

It was another official who was taking part in the scientific examination—Su Cen frowned, and was about to say something when suddenly a commotion broke out in the crowd.

"It's the evil spirits! It's the evil spirits in the tribute courtyard who came out to kill people!!" Someone yelled in the crowd.

The surrounding area exploded in an instant.