Placid Chang'an

Su Cen's heart moved, but his expression remained calm, and he even made a slightly disgusted expression, saying: "It will take time to arrest, interrogate, and verify. You are a ready-made murderer. Why should I do something that is thankless?" thing."

The housekeeper was really crying, kowtowed, and said incoherently: "No trouble, really no trouble, they are all in the capital, arresting them can not only solve the case, but also increase the rank of officials."

"Oh?" Su Cen stopped and showed some interest, "Tell me."

The butler slumped on the ground with a sigh of relief, and without any concealment, he took out everything he knew like beans from a bamboo tube: "My lord must have found Cuijixuan, there are probably some cheap fakes in there, even if I can't find anything in the past, the real good things are hidden in my master's secret room just as adults have seen."

Su Cen knew all of this, and with an impatient expression on his face, he urged, "Get to the point."

The butler was about to cry, wiped the cold sweat off his face and continued: "My lord doesn't know, Cuijixuan is not simple, there are actually three people behind it, one of them is in charge of retrieving the urn from the tomb, and my master is in charge of contacting The buyers, that is, those Hu merchants and foreign merchants who come to the door, Cuijixuan is the place where they buy and sell. But these Hu merchants and foreign merchants are subject to many restrictions in Dazhou, and they can’t take things out after they are optimistic, so there must be a person responsible for transporting the goods. to the outside."

It turned out to be a gang, Su Cen thought to himself, Liu Kang frequently went out of the customs under the name of a drug dealer, he should be the one who was in charge of transporting the artifacts to the outside of the customs, he and Xu Youhuai had known each other early in the morning.On the face, he asked calmly: "What do you say has anything to do with Xu Youhuai's death?"

"My master was killed by those two other people!" The butler said anxiously, "If they kill my master, one less person will share their share of the pie. This business seems to have a clear division of labor, but in fact it is necessary to rob the tomb and go out of customs. Less, but Cuijixuan, which is half dead, is the same for anyone, and after the buyer makes it clear, it’s not a big deal to lose this layer, so they want to get rid of our master quickly and share his share of the money.”

Liu Kang was still alive when the housekeeper was arrested, and he didn't know that one of the two so-called indispensable links had collapsed, so he was still speculating about Xu Youhuai's motive for murder here.

Three people, three paintings, "Burning its Blossoms", "Qi Ye Zhenzhen", "There Are Facts", and the three "Pictures of Peach Blossoms" were also brought out of the tomb?

Su Cen asked directly, "Who are the other two people you call?"

"I don't know what their names are." Seeing Su Cen's face darken, the butler hurriedly said, "But I know what they look like. One of them smells like medicine all the year round, and the other is very strong, like someone who knows kung fu. And I know they are in Beijing. The night before my master died, they met in Cuijixuan. They seemed to have had an argument because of something. They must have murdered my master at that time, which is what killed them. My master."

Su Cen: "Why are you arguing?"

The housekeeper frowned and thought for a while before saying, "It seems to be... a painting?"

Su Cen frowned, "What painting?"

"My lord, I really don't know," the butler was about to cry again, "When they meet, they always push people away. I just happened to hear such a remark. Your lord is very aware. I have said everything I know, absolutely. Nothing to hide."

The housekeeper didn't look like a liar at the moment of life and death, Su Cen finally asked: "Let me ask you again, have you ever moved the things in Xu Youhuai's room after Xu Youhuai's death?"

The housekeeper thought about it carefully: "I... I don't have it... Time is too tight, the adults came to the door the next day, and I haven't had time to transfer it yet."

Turning his head and thinking about it, he suddenly said in surprise: "By the way, I remembered, that painting is the one that your lord saw in the secret room. It was originally hung by the window, and my master looked at it every day. , I thought it must be a good thing, so I took the painting to the secret room, and shipped it out after the limelight passed, but I didn’t expect that the adults would find it first.”

That pair of "Tao Tian Tu" was originally hung in Xu You's bosom!

That ghost image is that painting!

No wonder he didn't find anything after watching all night. It turned out that the painting was no longer in Xu You's bosom.

Su Cen stood up abruptly and asked, "What about painting?"

Everyone was stunned, Xiao Sun replied: "I also put it in the evidence room together with the copied artifacts."

Su Cen immediately went to the evidence room, took two steps and turned around, "He has seen the appearance of the two masters, let two people watch him draw the portrait, Liu Kang doesn't need to draw it, just show it to him Confirmation, the key point is the one who didn't show up, find out the person based on the portrait as soon as possible."

The housekeeper froze in place, what kind of plot is this?Who is Liu Kang?Didn't you just want to deal with him?Did you change your mind after such a short time?

But in short, Amitabha, thank God, as long as it is not him, it will be fine.

Su Cen came out of the prison in a hurry, and before he arrived at the evidence room, someone came to report that the source of the painting had been found.

Su Cen glanced in the direction of the evidence room. He had seen that painting before. At least it was a painting during the daytime, so there was nothing strange about it. Now that it is midday, even if the painting is really a ghost, it can't be turned into a clear sky. conjure up.Su Cen decided to check the source of those paintings first.

Following the yamen servant all the way, Su Cen couldn't help being surprised that he was only a few steps away from this place.

It’s not anywhere else, it’s the Huazhai located in Xishi, at the corner of Cuijixuan street, where I met Li Yunxi when I met Li Yunxi, and the rouge-stained "Shuhesha Bird Picture" was originally going to be sent here .

The shopkeeper of Huazhai is an old man with half-haired hair. He is quite curious when he sees all these people rushing into his shop suddenly. Immediately lowered his head to study the small water injection in his hand.

After a while the old man figured out that these people were nothing more than a bunch of people, and the ones who were really in charge hadn't come yet.

After a while, a young man stepped in, and those people immediately surrounded him and explained something in a hurry. The young man also looked here for a while, nodded after a while, and dismissed him come forward.

The young man asked: "Old man, is this painting studio yours?"

The old man raised his head from the small water jet, and responded indifferently.

The old man looked like he could be his grandfather. It was rare for Su Cen not to offend, and said patiently, "Old man, I'm asking you for some paintings."

"Paintings, I'm all paintings," the old man raised his dry finger and pointed, "Which one do you want? Here are the "Fu Sheng Sutras", "Spring Outing", and "Hufu Beauty" 》, the young man is full of energy, do you want to... I don’t have that here.” Then he narrowed his eyes, “But I can find someone to draw for you. Lu? There are also open and wide open ones, but you have to pay more."

Su Cen: "..."

Looking for someone to draw, who to draw?Li Yunxi?I can't see that the thin and weak person can not only draw "Shuhesha Bird Picture", but also "Picture".

The yamen servant behind him shouted: "Presumptuous, my lord is..."

Su Cen dismissed the person with a wave of his hand, and continued to ask: "I want to inquire about the three copies of "Tao Tian Tu", do you still have any impressions of the old man?"

"Shen Cun's "Peach of Peach Blossoms"?" The old man raised his head and thought for a moment: "I have this painting before, but they have all been sold."

Su Cen asked anxiously, "Who did you sell it to?"

"One pair was taken away by the shopkeeper of Cuijixuan on the street, and he didn't give me any cash. Here, I exchanged it with me with this small water bottle. The remaining two..." The old man frowned and thought, "Then I don't remember Yes, but the paintings I sell here are all recorded, if you really want them, I can check them for you, you can negotiate with them."

Su Cen nodded, and the old man ordered a boy in the store to bring the account book and look through the pages.

While the old man was flipping through the ledger, Su Cen asked about the origins of the three "Pictures of Peach Blossoms".

The old man shook his head while flipping through the ledger: "This is a long story."

The old man really knew something, Su Cen stepped forward, "What do you say?"

The old man asked back: "Do you know who this Shen Cun is?"

Su Cen is not good at painting, but he has done some research on painting. He has a lot of painting skills in "Taoyao Tu", and the painting was only signed more than ten years ago, but he has never heard of Shen Cun. character.This is also a point that Su Cen wonders. It is indeed a bit strange that such a painting skill has not been published.

The old man shook his head, "It's understandable that you don't know, Shen Cun, he died a long time ago."

Su Cen was startled: "Dead?!"

"He died 11 years ago, a big family, a fire, all gone," the old man sighed, "If you say that the Shen family in central Shu is also a master of calligraphy and painting, the ancestor is Shen Xingzhong from the previous dynasty. "Hou Yi Fu Ri Tu" was written by him. It's a pity that it was passed down to Shen Cun's generation, and his family was in decline. Shen Cun didn't like publicity. It was a big fire that burned it all down, what a pity, what a pity."

Shen Cun is also a native of Shu?Su Cen remembered that Xu Youhuai came from Sichuan eleven or twelve years ago, could it be that Xu Youhuai still knew Shen Cun in the painting?

Su Cen asked, "What happened to the fire?"

"Natural disasters? Man-made disasters? Then who knows?" The old man shook his head and said, "I only know that the 32 members of the Shen family, including Shen Cun's eight-year-old daughter, were all burned to death in the fire, and only one housekeeper survived when he went out to buy. Taking advantage of the situation, I rescued the three "Peaches of Peach Blossoms", and I got these three paintings from him."

Su Cen asked: "Then where is the butler now?"

"He's dead too," the old man clicked his tongue twice, "he died of illness two years ago. He was afraid that these three paintings would never see the light of day, so he sent them to me and asked me to sell them for him. It can be regarded as letting Shen Cun's paintings pass on."

"That means none of the 33 members of the Shen family are alive now?" Su Cen frowned. Then why would someone die because of these three paintings?

"There is a saying, I don't know if I should say it or not," the old man looked up at Su Cen from the ledger, hesitating to speak.

Su Cen said, "Tell me."

The old man struggled for a while before saying: "The painting is a good painting, but I think you are young, so I advise you not to think about those three paintings again."

Su Cen: "How do you say that?"

The old man glanced at the door mysteriously, waved at Su Cen, and whispered avoiding others: "Those three paintings are cursed!"

Seeing that Su Cen didn't care much, the old man said again: "Don't believe it, you know the one who burned to death in Yuqian a few days ago, he is the shopkeeper of Cuijixuan who exchanged a small water injection for my painting, and you see Look, people have been burned to death in just a few days! Those three paintings were rescued from the fire, and whoever gets their hands on them will die if they got their hands on the grievances of the burnt people!"

Natural disasters and ghosts are now resentment. Su Cen doesn't believe that there are ghosts in this world, so he waved his hands and said, "You've touched it too, why are you okay?"

The old man's face turned cold, "Don't mention it, my painting studio was almost lost because of those paintings. If I hadn't left late that day, my painting studio would have almost been burned to ashes the next day. Otherwise, you think I can Because of such a small water note, the painting was sold, as far as the painting skills are concerned, it is still Shen Cun's masterpiece, wouldn't it be better for me to keep it and hand it down for generations... Hey, I found it."

Su Cen raised his head sharply.

The old man handed over the ledger, "The one who bought the pair of "Qi Ye Zhen Zhen" is called Liu Kang, and the pair of "You're Actually True" is called this...Cao Wei."