Northern Song Dynasty: The City of Qingquan Mystery Case

"What, what's going on here?" Qian Qing pushed away the crowd, dumbfounded, and a little incoherent, "Why is he here? How could-"

"Get out of the way!" Mr. Zhao rushed to push away the crowd, took a look at the people on the ground, and took a breath, "Master Yi? How could it be Mr. Yi? What happened to him?"

Seeing this, the guard next to him replied: "I was patrolling just now, and I heard the sound of swords colliding in this corner. When we came, we found Mr. Yi lying here covered in blood. Not far away, we saw a People, he...he is covering his face, his back is facing us, he is wearing blue and black clothes, he doesn't seem to be very tall..."

Ganqing didn't listen to what he said, but just helped Xiangquan up, checked his breath, it wasn't weak.Xiangquan closed his eyes and turned them slightly, as if he could wake up at any time.Qianqing breathed a sigh of relief, and the people around immediately stepped forward, lifted Xiangquan to the medical center.

Just as he was being lifted up, a box slid down from Xiang Quan's body with a snap.

Qian Qing didn't notice the box just now, it seemed that someone threw it on Xiang Quan.It was a wooden box, delicate and long, reddish brown all over, with strange hollows engraved on it.The wood inlaid jade on the body of the box is exquisite and unique, with no gaps in the inlay.With such a peculiar workmanship, you can recognize it at a glance - this is the matching rhinoceros box!

Yang Fuyin has been on the side all the time, at this moment he was stunned: "This...isn't this box in the Yongcheng government office?"

Mr. Zhao said: "After the rhinoceros bones were mixed with the counterfeit that day, the box was placed on the small case in the Houya, and no one looked at it anymore."

The guard replied: "At that time, we saw the strange thief in Tsing Yi with his back facing us. The strange thief in Tsing Yi seemed to be squatting at first, but when we arrived, he stood up suddenly, took something from the box, and put Throw the box back to Mr. Yi! At this time, we saw that he was holding the white one in his hand..."

"White rhinoceros?" Ganqing took a breath, "The strange thief in blue is holding a rhinoceros? Are you sure it's—"

Master Zhao interrupted him sharply: "How is it possible? How could the thing in the hands of the strange thief in blue be a rhinoceros bone?"

"I'm not sure, but it does look like a rhinoceros bone. When we saw this scene, we didn't even realize that this is... the Strange Robber in Tsing Yi..."

The guard's face was flushed, and he spoke incoherently.

"Seeing us coming, the strange thief in blue lowered his hands and turned his head slightly—we saw that this man was masked! His speed was so fast that we were not sure if we could see him clearly, it was both real and illusory! He jumped away at once, his shadow flashed, and he climbed over the wall and ran to West Street. Commander Fang arrived at this time, followed by more than a dozen people. Commander Fang was also stunned for a moment, but fortunately he reacted quickly, and followed behind the strange thief in blue I just chased it..."

"What a bunch of trash!" Yang Fuyin scolded angrily, shaking his sleeves with his fat arms.He turned to ask Mr. Zhao seriously, "My lord, what do you think?"

Master Zhao ignored it.After thinking for a while, he asked the guard: "How many chopsticks do you see in the hand of the strange thief in blue?"

"One," the guard bowed his head and replied, "We saw one, so we hesitated. Rhinoceros are a pair, so we..."

"It can be explained in this way," Yang Fuyin changed his anxious expression, and smiled triumphantly, with wrinkles all over his face, "The strange thief in Tsing Yi stole one first. He sent ants from the whole yard to come. After identifying the genuine product, we used a fake white cat—we thought it was Mr. Yi’s cat—to take the rhinoceros away and leave the city. And the other rhinoceros—apparently, Mr. Yi himself took the original rhinoceros to be on the safe side. It was a pair of chopsticks separated! One was mixed with the counterfeit Wangen and placed in the yard; the other was placed in my own place, and then I hid myself at night. In this way, the possibility of stealing two at the same time It has been greatly reduced! It is a pity," Yang Fuyin shook his head regretfully, "Being spotted by the Tsing Yi Bandit, it was still a failure in the end."

Mr. Zhao pondered for a while, and felt that the only way to explain it seemed.His face was gloomy, and he didn't seem to want to admit defeat, so he asked Qianqing: "They chased to West Street, is there a high possibility of arrest? I remember looking at the map, West Street, it's Fireworks Alley..."

Mr. Zhao knows that Qianqing knows Yongcheng best, but Qianqing shakes his head in disappointment: "The Tsing Yi bandit is really smart! When the city was banned, all night activities stopped, except for this fireworks alley, the business is more certain than usual It is less, but it is still quite lively at this time. There are many people doing business in Yongcheng. Those businessmen are very rich, and they love to go to that kind of place. Now that the city is banned, they have money, freedom, and entertainment recently. Rarely - they go there every day, and now is no exception."

Mr. Zhao asked: "They actually have no law? How dare they do business after the city is banned?"

Hearing this, Yang Fuyin immediately sweated on his forehead and replied nervously: "My lord doesn't know something, but the lower officials have always been troubled by this problem. The Fireworks Alley is not an ordinary place. Black and white are both good and bad. You recognize money but don't recognize people. This... There's nothing we can do..."

Qian Qing nodded: "That place is really not easy to search."

Lord Zhao snorted coldly: "Forget it, I'll go there myself, I don't believe it, there is no kingly law in this world! The blue-clothed bandits are criminals, they dare to pester them!"

Yang Fu Yin answered: "Then you should be careful of Shuiniang, that woman is in charge of the West Street, she has a lot of status in that alley, and she is difficult to deal with..."

Innocent Yang Fuyin glanced at it and thought, if you didn't go there often, how would you know so much?

Yang Fuyin continued: "Master Zhao is a member of the imperial court after all, and you have a high status, so it should be fine if you go." He took another look at Qianqing, "It would be even better if Mr. Xia also went, because after all The strength of the Xia family, they dare not say anything..."

Ganqing sneered, and said solemnly: "I don't go to that kind of place. I'll find a place to wash my hands, and then go to the medical clinic to ask about Xiangquan's condition." Ganqing's hands were still stained with Xiangquan's blood.

Yang Fuyin also glanced at Qianqing, didn't Mr. Xia often go there before?The two still meet often.

Mr. Zhao's face was very ugly, he didn't say anything, and led a group of people to the West Street. Seeing his complexion, Yang Fu Yin hurriedly followed, because he was fat, he walked slowly.

Ganqing watched the group of people go away, and the alley became quiet again.The guards were busy searching West Street.Gan Qing smiled wryly, none of them would want to rest tonight.The smoke not far away has not been extinguished. It seems that the fire is really big, and it has not been extinguished for so long.

The surrounding is quiet, it really means that someone has gone to the empty building.The Yongcheng government office that was still in chaos just now was almost deserted, only the lamps were left burning lonely.Qianqing went to the well of the inn to get some water, it was cloudy today, the moonlight came and went, but now it came out.Ganqing seldom fetches water by himself, the old well wheel is turning gurglingly, the moon is hanging in the autumn sky, and the moonlight is reflected in the wooden barrel, as if the moon was salvaged.He reached into the barrel, the ripples of the water stirred up the moonlight, and the faint smell of blood spread in the water.

The blood stained the moon in the water, making the moon seem not so bright.What beautiful things are stained with blood, after all, they are no longer beautiful.Qianqing sighed, but saw something shiny on the ground by the moonlight.

It is a sword.The sword is a good sword, but it is old.Qian Qing always knew the goods. He bent down to pick it up. The owner of the sword seemed to cherish it very much. He often wiped and maintained it, but he didn't think he used it often.

Ganqing took a breath and looked at the hilt of the sword. The patterns and patterns looked familiar, and the length of the sword——this was clearly Xiangquan's sword!

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