talk about the case

[When we like a person, a painting, a book, or a poem, what we really like is often not the person, painting, book, or poem itself, but what we see in it.Man is a narcissistic animal, always looking for a mirror for himself in others. 】

The servant guarding the Mountain Resort was named Li Ge. When he saw Xiuran and the others, he was really shocked. In broad daylight, the gods descended to earth.

Gan snapped his fingers, but he still didn't respond. Gan stretched out his hand and shook it in front of his eyes, and he reacted in embarrassment, touched his chest and took a deep breath, "Sorry, I..."

Qian smiled, "It's okay, I understand, we interrupted. The road is slippery and not easy to walk, can we rest in this yard for a while?" Then he took out a silver coin.

The servants quickly waved their hands, "No, no. There is no one here, it's empty, you can spend the night without any problem, come in." He kindly led everyone to a place with a good view in the courtyard, and then took the Lingyun beast to An empty and cool place.

Yan Queqing feels that this servant is a nice person, he will not be greedy when he sees money, and he is hospitable, and he has a heartfelt love for children and spirit beasts.

Gan is also good at judging people, saying, "He doesn't look like a bad guy."

"Isn't it, but he always looks at the small river to the east intentionally or unintentionally." That's where the corpses are buried.

Yan Queqing noticed that the height of this servant was similar to the man's height on the mud shoes he deduced, and there was still mud on his shoes, so he didn't mention the monk's death.

"Mister, you go to the yard to have a look, I'm pestering him." Qian was in charge of dealing with the people in the villa, while Yan Queqing and the others were in charge of finding clues.

Yan Queqing took Qiqi by the hand, with Xiuran and Li behind him, Jinyu slumped on the stone table unwilling to leave, the rest of the people knew that Yan Queqing suspected that the servants were also looking for clues.

Walking to the corner of the backyard, Qiqi found a child who was about his age, so she happily stepped forward to give Tangzi to him, and the child took it shyly and happily.

Qiqi took the opportunity to ask if anyone had been here recently.

The child smashed the candy and said, "There is a beautiful sister, but she is gone. Last night, my sister was still burning something by the wall, crying, and then she disappeared when she woke up."

Yan Queqing was listening and asked, "Is she about this tall?" Yan Queqing measured the height of his neck with his hands.

The child thought about it and nodded.

Qi Qi asked, "Is my sister wearing red shoes and a red dress?"

The child said with a miraculous admiration, "Yes. You are so amazing."

Qi Qi asked again, "Who is that elder sister? She must be very beautiful, and I want to know her too." The child shook his head, "She only lived here for two days and then left. No one knows who she is."

Yan Queqing asked again, "Where did that sister burn it? Can you tell me."

The child nodded, and led Yan Queqing and others to a big tree, "This is it."

Yan Queqing walked to an iron bucket and saw a pile of black and gray things. He was worried that the things would be burnt, so he used a dead tree branch to splash the burnt paper scraps away. Things are exposed, happy.

Picking it up carefully, I saw that it was a love letter. The woman's handwriting was beautiful and elegant, and the signature was vaguely discernible as the word "Panxuan".

I didn't reveal any clues about my identity, so I regretted looking through it with a branch, but there was nothing else.Yan Queqing felt helpless looking at the three or four mutilated letters in his hand.The man's handwriting is correct, and some of it has not been burned, but the corner of the signed clothes has long since turned to ashes.

Xiuran watched from the side of the tree and the white wall, Yan Queqing asked Li to carefully keep the unburned love letter, and went to Xiuran's side.

Xiuran pointed to a vulgar and strange poem engraved with a hard object near the crack of the wall:

Happy shoveling grass on the head of Pingzi, two rounds of sunshine in the sky shine on the road.

How long is an inch of wood, and good things can be made into pairs by worshiping Buddha?

Because the wall has not been repaired for many years and is covered by big trees, the white wall ash will leave clear marks when scratched hard.

Yan Queqing was puzzled, what kind of poem is this, and Xiuran also said that he had never heard of it.

Li looked at the writing on the wall and compared it with the handwriting of the woman in the love letter, and found that the two were very similar, both in gold-style lower case letters, and the traces of writing and closing were the same.It should be written by Panxuan, and the servants here can't read, so the traces were left recently, but why did you leave this strange poem?

At this time, Xun came to look at the poem on the wall, and said mysteriously, "Sir, I went to that woman's room to read it, and it was a bit strange."

strangeness?Everyone followed Xun curiously.

When I came to the room where Panxuan lived, there was a small rectangular mark on the side of the table leg of a wooden cabinet. It was obvious that the cabinet had been moved. Xun moved the cabinet and found that a whole block of bricks behind had been pried open, and there were some Silt, Tatsumi took out a dagger and pried open the bricks, revealing a dark gray bundle.

"It's all hidden here, what is so mysterious."

Xun opened the bag and took a look, great job!They were all golden, Qiqi's eyes were glued to the gold all the time, Xun funnyly took out a bead and held it in front of Qiqi's eyes.

Qiqi couldn't take his eyes off it, Xun took the golden bead and circled around, Qiqi followed suit, Xun scratched his nose, "Yo! You little money fanatic."

Qiqi didn't pay any attention to it, her eyes were still glued to the gold, "It's the first time I've seen so much money, it's clear, if no one gets it within a year, so much will be ours." Rubbing a big bag of gold , causing everyone to roar with laughter, and then looked at Yan Queqing, and again?

Yan Queqing also smiled happily and nodded in agreement, "Yes."

Everyone helped their foreheads, one big and one small were hopeless.

Xun looked carefully at the bundle. Apart from gold, it was jewelry, and there was no official or private logo engraved on the gold. The only clues were burnt letters and strange poems.Xun restored the other things to their original state, and the group returned to the pavilion as if nothing had happened.

Yan Queqing kept staring at Brother Li while drinking tea, and patted him on the shoulder knowingly and said, "Brother Li, a monk's body was found in front, do you know anything?"

Brother Li's pupils dilated when he heard this, he shook his head and denied it.

Yan Queqing put down his teacup and said calmly, "Your shoes are still stained with monk's blood."

Li Ge looked at the shoes in shock, but there were only yellow mud.Looking up and seeing Yan Queqing's smile of successful 'trickery', he knew that he had been deceived, so he had no choice but to tell the truth.

"Two nights ago, there was a woman wearing a red dress and a veil. It was raining lightly that night. She also said that the road was difficult and she took a room to rest for a night. I was afraid that she would be in danger, so I left her behind. Later, Yu Yue The bigger the situation, the more she stayed there for two days to prevent accidents."

"The roof leaked last night. I was afraid of damaging the furniture, so I had to use the lamp to repair it overnight. At that time, I heard someone shouting for help, but I couldn't see anything in the darkness. Thinking of that beautiful woman, I was afraid that something would happen to her. Xunsheng ran over. When I got there, I saw that she was being ignored by a bad monk, and the woman’s clothes were torn. I hugged him tightly and told the woman to run first, but the monk kept resisting, and he was taller than me. His opponent."

Yan Queqing said, "That's why you touched your lungs, your ribs must be broken."

"Yeah, luckily it's not a big deal. When I couldn't hold on, the monk suddenly lost his strength and his whole body went limp. I let go, and he fell to the ground. It turned out that the woman picked up a stone and threw it on the monk's head." Throwing it away, hey, I don’t know where the strength of that woman is, I was dead when I touched the monk’s breath. Take it off and put it on for the woman, listen to her words and throw the monk and the bloody stone to the river not far away and bury it hastily."

Xun asked, "Why don't you bury it farther away, or deeper? The rain washed out the corpse."

"I'm scared. I was worried that the recent rain would expose the body. Oh man, I really can't do anything wrong."

"You are monks who accidentally killed you to protect yourself, why didn't you report the crime?"

"I was in a panic at the time, and I followed what the woman said. I thought of reporting it. It was the next day when I came to my senses, and the woman was gone. Who will prove that I am innocent?"

Yan Queqing had a question, "Where is the nearest temple?"

"It's quite far away," he raised his head and thought for a while, "but this way, if the monk returns to the monastery, he shouldn't be here. We are in the north of Luoyuan City. There is only one temple here called Jinshen Temple, which is in the south of the town. It’s the opposite direction. There are few people on this side, and alms is not here.”

"Do you know that woman?"

"I don't know her, but she is a little girl. At that time, I thought she was kidnapped and escaped by others, so I took her in."

"Abduction?"

"I don't know that you are from out of town. In the past few years, children and women have been stolen from nearby places. The government has been looking for the missing person, but it's pitiful."

"What's the matter with her coming?" Yan Queqing asked.

"In a panic, wearing a big red dress, she came on horseback, oh! By the way, she also carried a heavy burden. I wanted to help her carry it, but she didn't want to. When she left, she just left A letter and a gold ingot are in the room."

"Wait, I'll get it." After a while, Brother Li brought a farewell thank you letter and gold ingots, but the gold ingots were useless, after all, they had a big bag, so they only took the letter.

He pointed to the gold and said, "Sir, you are the envoy, don't you need to take this gold away?"

Yan Queqing waved his hand, "No, I believe what you said is true, it's just that this woman's identity is a mystery, can you think about the woman again." Now it's time to pry out what he knows, whether to lie or not Let's talk about finding a woman.

"I feel like that woman is a maiko."

The red soft shoes that Tatsumi found are only worn by maikos and actors, ordinary women can walk easily in hard shoes, and continued to ask, "How do you know?"

Li Ge blushed a little, "I, that, she is beautiful, I have seen her dance under the big tree, she is so beautiful."

Yan Que smiled lightly and asked, "Do you have a map of Luoyuan City?"

Brother Li regained consciousness from his imaginings, and touched his head, "Yes. You guys wait."

Yan Queqing spread out the map, and everyone gathered around the map to look at it. Brother Li was also a servant of a wealthy family, knowing that they wanted to discuss something, he closed the door and left.

Zhen said, "It is true that a monk would not take this route if he wanted to go back to the monastery, and he would not come to this place for alms. There are few people here, and there are only a few summer resorts nearby. I guess they are looking for that woman specially. And it’s not good for women.”

She smiled wretchedly, "Didn't that servant say that she was carrying a heavy burden? It's possible that monk wanted to rob both money and sex."

Yan Queqing looked at the map and nodded, "It's very possible, but what I'm more concerned about is why a woman came to the countryside late at night with a huge sum of money. She didn't bring any clothes or necessary items, but we should go to Luoyuan City immediately. We can find her."

"Why, even if there is only Luoyuan City nearby, it is also possible that the woman came from another place."

Yan Queqing replied, "The small script in gold body is the popular font in Luoyuan City. The shoes left by that woman have no traces of friction, and why would she wear soft shoes when walking on a country road? If you ride a horse from Luoyuan City, you will arrive here in half a day." .”

"In this case, something urgent happened to her and she ran away with the money in a hurry." Li hugged Qiqi and joined in the speculation.

Yan Queqing shook his head, "Let's go to Luoyuan City to have a look. I always have a bad feeling about that strange poem."

In the evening, everyone got ready and set off again.