I looked at the guards and smiled slightly, "You lead the way." “

The blue brick house looks like it's been standing on the outside for some years, and the bricks on the wall show signs of rainwater seeping.

I was followed by the guard, and the three of them entered the house one after the other.

It was empty, with a table and a few chairs in the corner of the wall.

I looked around and realized that the brick walls inside the house didn't look as mottled at all as they looked outside.

Seeing my surprised eyes, the steward glanced at the two guards and said, "Childe, the walls of this house are made of two layers. ”

"It's to make sure it's dry."

I nodded and said, "The person who built this mansion back then has a heart. ”

I didn't mention the City Lord's Mansion because I traveled all the way to calculate the time, and it didn't take long for the Snow Eagle to arrive in the southwest, so how could it be possible to build the City Lord's Mansion so generously.

I've seen the house outside, but there are some traces of renovation and rest.

This mansion, in the middle of the mountain, and far away from the city, should be a private mansion, as for why it became the city lord's mansion of Snow Eagle, it can only be explained in detail when I see him.

The steward did not know what I was thinking, and when he saw that there was no one in the room, he said to the guards, "I think the painter has gone down to see it again." ”

He turned his head to look at me and said, "That's it, if you want to go down, he will accompany you, I will wait here, if the city lord comes back, I also knew earlier, and I will come down and call you immediately." ”

I thought about it for a moment and knew that this was a pretext, after all, it was not a good-looking thing below, and the ancients were somewhat superstitious.

From folk point to me, this matter is considered unlucky.

I nodded in agreement with the steward's suggestion.

The guard walked ahead and descended the stairs in the other corner of the room, where there was a long passage to the underground.

Every few steps a groove was carved out of the wall, in which candles were placed for lighting.

This candle is not the one commonly found on the street, and it is several times thicker.

Even though the light in the passage was good, there was still an unpleasant smell of mold mixed with dampness and chill.

The guard turned to look at me. Seeing that I was calm. He said loudly: "I didn't expect you to look weak and weak, and you didn't frown when you came in, just like the person just now." “

I saw that he had opened up the conversation, so I wanted to take the opportunity to ask him about the previous painter.

I questioned, "The City Lord's Mansion wants to recruit painters, isn't there anyone in the huge mansion who is good at Danqing?" “

The guards stopped, smiling as sarcastically as Luo Junman defending the city. "It's not a painting of a few beauties or landscapes, you know that it's okay, you'll be able to see it right away, anyway, if you can't stand it, tell me as soon as possible, I'll take you out."

As we spoke, we walked down the stairs. Bypassed a door and counted the destination of the trip.

On the platform was the corpse that had been fished up from the river outside the city gate in the southwest.

When I walked here, I realized that what I smelled in the passage just now was simply pediatric.

The whole room was filled with that foul smell. In addition, this is a basement, so the smell is more difficult to evaporate.

My stomach churned, and the man who was leaning down to examine the body looked up at us.

I was stunned, but I heard the guard say, "This is the painter who came first." “

The guard looked at me, didn't ask me, and spoke to him first: "How are you, you won't be in trouble now." "Thank you." The painter took off the muslin bag he was holding in his hand for isolation, picked the corner of his mouth and said, "I couldn't adapt to it for a while, but now it's okay." “

The guard nodded to me, who was standing aside, and said, "Now I've found a helper for you, and the two of you will take a look at it together, discuss it together, and then decide how to draw." “

The guard scratched his head, looked at the corpse resting on the platform, and said, "Or the two of you can draw one picture separately and give it all to the city lord." "Okay." I said yes to the artist. The ghost envoy glanced at each other, and when I saw him smile even more freely, I muttered in my heart, are you so happy?

Seeing that the guard was about to leave, I called out to him, "I bother you to tell the steward, we will go up later, can you prepare some tea for us." "If you can, prepare some snacks."

When the guard heard the previous sentence, he nodded very happily, and when he heard that I was still supping, he grew his mouth in surprise, as if to confirm whether his ears were wrong.

I repeated, and he looked at me like a monster for a moment, and then stiffly agreed.

When the guard's back disappeared, I vaguely heard him muttering to himself: "I vomit without looking at it, and I still have to eat snacks, this person is really"

I didn't care, I turned my head and waited for the movement to disappear, then frowned at the people standing by the stage and said, "You didn't have a good rest early in the morning, and you ran out to take on such a job." ”

"I should have thought it was yours."

I sighed, looked at Yun Chu, and said with depression in my eyes: "I don't know what to say about you." “

Yun Chu covered the corpse with the white cloth on the platform, walked over and looked down at me, and said with a slight smile: "You are in the southwest, you are free enough to move, and so am I." "How can it be the same," I finally got angry when I heard him say this, "you are a patient, your physical condition is so bad, what are you doing on this troubled water?" “

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "It's not muddy waters, since the matter is related to you, and I am in the southwest, I have to take care of it." “

"Anyway, who are you?" The moment I blurted out, I suddenly remembered what he had said to me in the canyon, and my face suddenly burned, and the words of the woman and the singer were still in my ears.

I muttered, "Who wants you to care?" ”

Yun Chu smiled: "Just now, I was so loud that I was about to wake up others, but now I have become a little sheep again." ”

Wake up, I shivered, is this a cold joke?

In this basement, who else is going to be woken up except me and him?

I felt that the temperature here was much cooler than outside, so I tightened my clothes and looked around, only to find that there were many wooden barrels in the corners, and they were all ice cubes.

I looked at the buckets of ice in surprise and said, "Where did the Snow Eagle find it?" ”

"It's autumn in the southwest now, and the climate here is warmer and wetter than in Qibei, so I'm afraid this ice won't be easy to come by."

Yun Chu didn't answer, he watched me look down at the movement of the ice bucket, and saw me turn over a wooden basin next to the ice bucket. Sitting inside were large piles of white crystalline granular objects.

I twisted it with my hand. Straighten up and ask him, "What is this?" ”

Yun Chu stood in place and said, "It's well salt." ”

"Need this for an autopsy?" I looked at Yun Chu suspiciously, the purpose of the ice cube is self-evident, this well salt?

Anyway, when I think about it, the most important thing I haven't done here yet.

As I spoke, I walked quickly to the edge of the platform, took a deep breath, put on the cloth bag that Yun Chu had used just now, and reached out to pick up the white cloth covering the corpse.

Suddenly, Yun Chu raised his hand to block me and said, "Don't look at it." ”

"Otherwise, you think I'm here to play." My face was a little pale, but my tone was insistent. "I'm already ready when I come."

"I saw it on the bridge outside the city gate that day, I wasn't mentally prepared at all, so I was scared half to death, today I know very well what I'm here for, don't stop me."

The moment I reached out and lifted the white cloth, I realized why so many people were looking for all kinds of reasons to stop me.

I knew it was a woman's, but it's a pity for her face. was slashed more than a dozen times, and it looked terrifying.

I gasped and quickly covered myself with a white cloth, my heart pounding.

The room was silent for a while, and I stood by the platform to calm down for a while, and once again uncovered the white cloth covering the corpse.

However, having seen her face, this time I did not uncover it from the beginning, but from the foot up.

There were no shoes left on the corpse's feet. Her clothes were a white middle coat, stained with a lot of mud from the river and moss-colored marks left by the entanglement of aquatic weeds and tearing off.

Not even a coat!

I subconsciously remembered that I should look at the underwear she was wearing, and my eyes glanced at Yun Chu, and I whispered, "You avoid it." “

Hearing the song and knowing what it meant, he dodged to one side of the wall, his back to me.

To my disappointment, the belly pockets worn by women are also common in the lake country, not to mention the southwest region, and this kind of ordinary belly pocket can be seen everywhere in the lake country.

There are also no obvious features such as birthmarks.

I lightly covered her clothes and slowly covered her entire body with a white cloth.

With the clean water in the wooden barrel in the corner, I washed my hands carefully, even though there was no direct skin-to-skin contact. "I didn't know her face was ruined like this when I came," I said, clenching my fists, "and what a madman the murderer is." "It's just that, in this way, there is one of the biggest problems at the moment, I have to draw her appearance, it seems difficult, I can't think of what to do for a while." With that, I looked up at Yun Chu. "So, it's okay to come and do this trip to the troubled waters." Yun Chu smiled, and sent me the words I blamed him over, and also attached a knife, "You must know how to hide it." “

I glared at him and said, "It's not easy to figure out her appearance like this, you should draw it, you can paint it." ”

Yun Chu ignored me, raised his legs and walked to the exit of the basement, and walked straight up the steps.

"Hey, wait a minute, how can you leave me alone."

I hurriedly followed and made the tail

In the blue-brick house, the guards and the steward sat on opposite sides of the table.

I peeked behind Yun Chu, and sure enough, I saw tea and prepared snacks on the table.

Seeing Yun Chu and me walking out of the passage one after the other, the steward stepped up and said, "Two, how do you look?" ”

I didn't say anything, Yun Chu said calmly: "Prepare paper and pen." "Here, I'm afraid it's not appropriate," it's a murder case, and it's not good for the person in charge to ask anything, after all, the city lord is not in the mansion.

He stroked his beard and pondered, "Why don't you do this?" Please follow me to the side hall, and I will have someone prepare a pen and paper to serve. “