Northern Song Dynasty: The City of Qingquan Mystery Case

The white dew is approaching, the summer heat is gone, and the weather in Yongcheng is still changeable, sometimes windy and sometimes sunny.Although the weather is changeable, the constant is the cool day by day, and now the wind is blowing, bringing a little bit of chill.

The strong wind is a harbinger of heavy rain, and I felt the fog of doubt in my mind was blown away bit by bit as I was braving the wind.While thinking, he walked towards West Third Street.On the way, he passed a place.

There is a warehouse here, and a guard stands at the door.

The reason why Qianqing noticed this place was because there was a little mud under his feet, which was extremely muddy and it was very difficult to walk.The dirt is facing the door of the warehouse.

Just then Qianqing was called away by Gu Yu in Yongcheng government office, a guard came to report that the warehouse was stolen, but he happened to be away at the time, so he didn't hear it.Now Qianqing looked towards the warehouse and was taken aback.I saw that the door of the warehouse was blasted open, and it was in dilapidated condition.

"What's going on here?" Gan Qing asked the guard.

Seeing that it was the young master of the Xia family, the guard told the truth: "During the rain yesterday, the warehouse was stolen and the door was blown open."

Qian Qing was curious, so he simply asked a few questions: "What did you lose?"

"Salt."

Qianqing was surprised: "Salt? Is there salt in this warehouse?"

The guard didn't want to say too much, seeing that it was Mr. Xia, he just said, "Mr. Xia, it is enough not to disclose it to others. Only salt was lost in this warehouse, and the rest is intact. There are also some weapons and sundries used by the government of Yongcheng in the warehouse. , such as lanterns, firewood, oil, etc. - all are not missing. Some salt is stored here, not too much, enough for the government of Yongcheng. This is not a salt storehouse, and there is no one guarding it at ordinary times. been stolen."

Ganqing nodded, didn't ask any more questions, turned around and left, and suddenly saw the shaking street lights on the street.

He had an association in an instant, and his mind became clear in an instant.

"It was found out today that after the lamp oil was mixed with datura and musk, did you throw out all the lamp oil in the city and replace it with new ones?"

The guard nodded: "It should be that in the evening, the yamen sent people here to fetch lamp oil and change it."

Qian Qing said in a deep voice: "This warehouse was stolen yesterday, right?"

Although the guard answered patiently, he was annoyed that Mr. Xia still hadn't left: "Yes. After the gunpowder powder drenched in the rain, I deduced that the time was indeed the time when the thunder struck last night."

"The new lamp oil is taken from here tonight, isn't it?"

Hearing this, the guard froze for a moment: "Young Master Xia means——"

"Is there any remaining lamp oil left? Let me go in and have a look." After Gan Qing finished speaking, he immediately made a gesture and walked in. The speed was so fast that he almost hit the guard.

"My lord, my lord! I'm sorry, I shouldn't let outsiders know about this place. If my lord wants to go in, I'm afraid it's..." The guard pulled him, anxious, if Mr. Xia really wanted to go in, no one would be able to stop him. !

Qianqing shook his head and stepped back: "Forget it, I'm still busy. Just tell me the details of changing the lamp oil today."

Seeing that Qianqing backed down, the guards hurriedly told the truth: "At night, the yamen sent people to say that all the lamp oil in the city had been added with something. The old lamp oil was carried out and distributed to the guards, and soon, they dumped the old lamp oil and replaced it with new ones."

"What's wrong with the new lamp oil?"

The guard hesitated: "When I changed the lamp, I felt a fragrance."

"It's natural, the smell is really choking."

The guard hurriedly said, "No, it's not a choking smell—the old lamp oil has no smell, and the new lamp oil has a faint fragrance."

Gan Qing was taken aback for a moment, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and he figured everything out at once.They were completely taken advantage of by the Tsing Yi Bandit.

The civet scent is mixed in the new lamp oil.

Gan Qing closed his eyes, the whole incident was too complicated.He needs to clear his mind again.

He waved goodbye to the guards, and he came to the laurel tree not far from West Third Street and looked at it.

Laurel has a beautiful shape.It is windy but cloudless tonight, and there is a beautiful moon in the sky. It is glowing with soft light, and it makes the shadow of the laurel tree long.

Immediately, I felt at peace.It is said that in the Guanghan Palace, Wu Gang kept cutting down the osmanthus tree, and the tree would heal. Wu Gang cut down again, and the osmanthus tree healed again.Since then, the moonlight has merged with the sweet-scented osmanthus, and it is called laurel.

The city is full of fireworks, the guards are gone, Xiangquan is in a coma, and Qianqing is left alone to face the laurel tree, but suddenly feels that he can feel the feelings of Wu Gang cutting the laurel—lonely and lonely, but he has to swing the ax down.

Qianqing's anxiety and uneasiness about unexpected events were instantly replaced by tranquility.The whole theft incident was like a weird picture scroll, which became transparent under the baptism of moonlight.

He saw through the plot of the Tsing Yi Bandit.

Xiang Quan obviously understood, he heard what Qu Ze said about the Yongcheng government office, and quickly made a judgment, but he still stared hard at "The Chronicle of Xiang Yu" when he was paralyzed all over his body.

This is Xiangquan's reminder.

Liu Bang adopted Zhang Liang's strategy and wrote "The Overlord died here" with honey juice when the Overlord was trapped in Gaixia, which attracted ants.The ants are addicted to sugar, so they formed a zigzag.Xiang Yu didn't know, and was overly superstitious. He thought he was going to die naively, and the army's morale was slackened.

Gan Qing slowly closed his eyes, he knew this story.The ancients and the present cannot escape psychological hints.Even though there are countless lessons from history, it is still difficult to get out of the vicious circle of one's own logic.Ants' addiction to sugar is just a natural phenomenon. Xiang Yu believes in heaven, seeing this sign, he must think that heaven will punish him.Qianqing lamented that this incident was too similar to today's incident.

The Tsing Yi Bandit took advantage of this.

Rhinoceros are soaked in sugar water, and ants are addicted to sugar.So the Tsing Yi Bandit sent ants to identify it, and finally the cat brought out the real rhinoceros from the guards - such a theory is perfect.

So along that line of thought, all the hunters thought the rhinoceros had been stolen.Ganqing smiled wryly, Xiang Yu was superstitious about signs from heaven, but what about himself?What about all the guards in Yongcheng Mansion?

Those who handle cases are often "superstitious" in the laws of nature.The theft by the strange thief in Tsing Yi in the government office of Yongcheng was a scam at all.

The rhinoceros bone is something from the late Spring and Autumn period and the early Warring States period. It has been preserved for thousands of years, and it is unknown whether it has been soaked in sugar water for many years.Even if it is really soaked in sugar water, how much sweetness can remain after leaving it for so long?Although ants are addicted to sugar, when hundreds of millions of ants are covered with tens of thousands of rhinoceros bones, the difference in the number of ants on the real rhinoceros bones and the fake ones will not be too big at all.

So how did the cat figure out the real thing so quickly?

Qianqing made a bold assumption that the white cat that resembled Fuxue picked up a random one and took it away.

This kind of theft method is unheard of, and everything happened so quickly, this is the cunning of the Tsing Yi Strange Thief.He uses the logical influence of people in a state of panic.

The appearance of the cat played a role in misleading the guard's thinking.In this way, the guard's subconscious mind will follow along, thinking that his guess "The Tsing Yi Robber used the ants' sugar addiction to identify the real product" is correct.

So the matter continued, and it turned into a farce where dozens of people desperately went out of the city to chase the cat.

This seemingly ridiculous event can have fatal effects, just like Xiang Yu's final ending.Gan Qing knew that the Tsing Yi Bandit's trick was very risky, now that he calmed down and looked back, he even found it ridiculous that a group of living people were deceived by cats and ants!

The more ornate and complex the technique, the less feasible it is.The gorgeous drama staged by the strange thief in Tsing Yi can't steal the rhinoceros at all.

Gan Qing slowly closed his eyes, he knew that he was approaching the truth.

The moonlight entered the water and shone on Qianqing's body, but he felt a bone-chilling chill.

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