The guards slowly retreated, and from the central road, a group of men and horses stepped out.

The first person was Qiao Fengjian, the head of the Qiao family, and on his side, followed by a black-clothed master, that person was not an outsider, it was Qiao Fengjian who was a diner in the mansion, Chu Chenge.

Behind the two of them are three well-known local servants, and after that, there are a number of guards of the Qiao family, and even many people Gu Zi'an knows.

Qiao Fengjian, the old man who had only seen Gu Zi'an in the house when he was eating ice drinks yesterday, looked around in the crowd waiting on the outskirts of Xifang City, and when he saw Gu Zi'an, his eyes seemed to be a little surprised, but he didn't say anything, and immediately moved his gaze elsewhere.

Among the blood coagulation masters of the Qiao family's guards in the rear, there were two people carrying a stretcher, on which lay a mutilated woman's corpse, and there was a piece of linen casually next to the corpse, even the size was a little inappropriate, obviously found in Xifang City, so that although the woman's body was partially eaten by the fish in the fish pond, there was still a part of the mutilated body exposed.

Gu Zi'an wanted to go up and take a look at the corpse, but as soon as the surrounding merchants waited for the soldiers to leave, they hurriedly rushed to the door of Xifang City with their own things, although the trouble is good-looking, but it can't be eaten, making money is the first important thing, and now it has been delayed at the gate of Fang City for too long, so that they can't wait to go in to do business at the moment, as for these dead people and the like, it is already very unlucky, it will affect the business in the Fang City, they are all holding a picture of the idea of being out of sight at the moment, just looking forward to these soldiers and corpses leaving quickly。

Gu Zi'an was a mortal, standing in the crowd, and was soon squeezed out of direction, so he could only go with the flow and follow the crowd to Xifang City.

While walking inside along the crowd, Gu Zi'an also tried to turn back and observe the dead on the stretcher.

It's a pity that although the deceased's head is partially exposed, the skin on her face has been bitten beyond recognition by the fish in the fish pond, and it is difficult to identify, and she is like a water ghost at the moment, her hair is messy on her face, even if there is some intact skin, because of the soak in the water of the fish pond for too long, there are wrinkles and puffiness everywhere, and it is extremely miserable.

It's just that the only thing he can confirm at the moment is that the woman is very young, about the same age as Qi Fu and Scopole.

Although at this time he was not sure at all whether the common point between the two was too suspicious and far-fetched, or whether it was really related to the blue and white on his forehead.

At the moment, since he has entered Xifang City, he might as well go to the fish shop to take a look, since the person died in the fish pond, then he might as well go over and take a look, although the three professional servants have not been able to see the reason, he may not be able to have anything

harvest, but Gu Zi'an felt that it was okay to go and see it first, after all, this blue and white matter, except for himself, even if someone found out at the moment, he was afraid that he would rarely care.

For example, Qiao Fengjian, the head of the Qiao family, his wife, that is, the mistress of the Qiao family, also tattooed blue and white on his eyebrows, but these days, he didn't doubt it too much, of course, this time, Qiao Fengjian has an outer room, and secondly, he is busy with affairs, although he respects each other with his wife, but the time to see each other is less, so it is normal not to care.

Although Gu Zi'an lives in the east, because he needs to buy melons, fruits and vegetables to make cold drinks and ice food, he often runs to this Xifang City.

The road was tortuous but fast, and after a while, Gu Zi'an had already come to the side of the fish shop.

After I came, I found that the owner of the fish shop was crying with a sad face, and he was sitting next to the fish pond with a weak face to wipe his tears.

It is a very strange thing for a big man to wipe his tears in broad daylight, but none of the merchants and pedestrians around him pointed a finger and laughed at him.

Although his pond is small, there are more than 100 fish of all kinds in it, and the surrounding fish fishers bring every live fish they catch to him to sell, and then he sells them to the surrounding restaurants and customers who come to buy fish, but he makes a difference in price.

Now there are dead people in this pool, and all the fish in the pool, as long as they are eaten, have probably eaten the dead woman's, the fish that they don't eat, and have been soaked in the water for so long, and the blood that comes out of the dead people has probably been drunk unintentionally.

In and out of this square, the news spreads extremely fast, but as long as it is a normal person, who will eat those fish that have eaten and drunk human blood, or fished out of the pool of the dead?

Since there is no one to eat it, then the hundreds of fish that he has collected intermittently, and the silver that has been melted away, are all in vain.

Life is not easy for mortals, renting such a piece of land in Xifang City requires money, and the next year and month have to pay some protection fees, the women and children in the family have to eat, without this money, in the future, the fish seller himself does not know what to do?

Here, in Xifang City, no one will laugh at such a person.

Because if the woman had died in their stall or shop last night, I am afraid that they would have suffered the same fate.

Gu Zi'an walked up to the fishmonger with a familiar face, but still didn't know his name, put a hand on his shoulder, and asked, "I have something, I want to ask the master, if these fish eat anything, how long will it take to completely digest these things?"

Although the man was very uncomfortable at the moment, when he heard Gu Zi'an ask, he still touched his tears and said, "The digestion time of the fish depends on the type of fish and the food, and the digestion time is not

It's the same, but in the case of ordinary fish, it usually takes at least five to ten hours to digest what they eat. ”

Gu Zi'an asked again: "Does the master know when the woman died?"

That person, Gu Zi'an, was also sent to investigate this matter, so he said 1510: "I said that it was about after the ugly hour last night, before the Yin hour, at that time, the door of Xifang City had been closed for a long time, and I don't know why anyone is still here." ”

"It's not yet the end of the day, that is, the fish will eat the dead for three hours at most?"

"That's right!" the man nodded.

Gu Zi'an's eyes lit up, and he said, "Master, I want all the fish in your pool!"

"One, a pool of fish, all, all of them?" the man's eyes widened, his eyes were a little surprised, a little confused, and more really happy!

As long as the cost of buying fish yesterday is fully recovered, then even if there are fewer people who come to buy fish because of the dead man, it will slowly recover over time, and this loss is already within his bearing, of course he is overjoyed.

Gu Zi'an smiled: "That's right, I want all the fish in a pond, but can you give me a cheaper price, big brother, after all, ......"

Gu Zi'an hadn't finished speaking, but the fish seller said directly: "Eight percent off, eight percent off, I'll give you an eighty percent discount on the cost price, what do you think?"

Smiled and nodded, Gu Zi'an took out the two coins from his arms, handed them directly to the fish seller, and said with a smile: "If there are more, you don't need to look for them, it's still troublesome to the master, just here, fish out all these fish, kill them, I don't want anything else, and ask the master to take out their intestines and give them to me!"

"No problem, no problem, Brother Bao, you are satisfied!" The fish seller was fishing for fish in the fish pond while earnestly playing the package ticket.

Killing fish and getting dirty is obviously to investigate the case of the dead woman before, and the fish farmer thought in his heart, thanks to this case, there is still some value, otherwise he will lose a lot of money today!

But how did he know that Gu Zi'an investigated the case not to go to Qiao Fengjian to ask for merit at all, but because if he didn't investigate it clearly, the worries in his heart would not be relieved.