Chapter 5: Mysterious Powder

Looking at the emperor's distant back, Governor Lin got up from the ground, wiped the cold sweat on his face and said, "I was really scared to death just now, I really didn't expect the emperor to pay a private visit." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Tiancheng, are you sure to solve this case? ”

"Actually, I'm not completely sure to solve the case." Yin Tiancheng replied very easily.

"Then what you just said is right, in case you can't solve the case by then, you and I are both guilty of bullying the king, and we will be killed."

"Father-in-law, if I didn't say that just now, would the emperor promise me a grace time?"

"That's the same, now we can only take one step at a time. By the way, Tiancheng, you have been missing for a whole day, but you can kill your father in a hurry! ”

Yin Tiancheng replied: "The child almost died under the murderer's sword, but fortunately he was rescued by a woman. ”

"It's really God bless loyalty, so that my Lin family will not be catastrophic. Another day you take me to the woman's house, and I will thank her profusely. Governor Lin breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

"Alas, the woman disappeared after she saved me, and I don't know if she was a human or a ghost."

"What do you mean by that?"

Yin Tiancheng replied: "Alas, this matter has been talked about, and I will discuss it with my father-in-law in detail in the future." Solving this series of serial murders is the most important thing now. ”

"Tiancheng, how can we arrange it now to catch the murderer?"

"I think it's better to withdraw the soldiers of the Nine Gates first. If the father-in-law does this, he can only nuisance the people and will do no harm to solving the case. Yin Tiancheng took the opportunity to point out the stakes.

"I'm afraid it's inappropriate, aren't you afraid that the murderer will take the opportunity to run away?"

"I don't think so, he's not there yet, we still have a chance." Yin Tiancheng saw that his father-in-law still had doubts, so he further explained his reasons.

"Well, just do as you say, Ding Ming!"

"Humble duty!" Ding Ming, the head catcher, responded.

"Immediately give me the order to lift the blockade of the city gates."

"Let's do it."

"Brother Ding, please wait, did you find that thing on the corpse of Liaodong's own soldiers?" Yin Tiancheng remembered what he had told Ding Ming.

Ding Ming replied: "I found it, and it is indeed the same as the conclusion you guessed." After speaking, he took out a paper bag from his body and handed it to Yin Tiancheng, and then resigned to do the official business assigned by Governor Lin.

Yin Tiancheng took the paper bag and said to Governor Lin: "Father-in-law, I still have a clue that I didn't tell you just now. ”

"What clues?"

Yin Tiancheng opened the paper bag and handed it to him, "Father-in-law, please take a look." ”

The paper bag is a red powder, with a faint fragrance.

"It's like some kind of spice."

"This was found by Ding Ming on the corpse of the murdered Liaodong soldier." Yin Tiancheng replied.

"Huh?" Governor Lin said: "I didn't expect this pro-soldier to have a woman's things, could it be that he has a good relationship in the capital, and he is going to give this to her?" ”

"No, it's not a relic of a soldier, I think it looks like a murderer. And it was the spice that had been on eight of the victims of the previous sixteen murders, and it was for this reason that I began to suspect that the same person was the author of these cases. ”

"Could it be that this murderer is a woman?"

"It's possible." Yin Tiancheng frowned and said, "The strange thing is that there are a lot of spices on the victim's body, which looks like they were sprinkled by someone. Why did the murderer sprinkle such remarkable evidence on the body of the deceased, and was not afraid of being discovered by us? Or is he suspicious and trying to lead us astray? ”

"Well, that's really puzzling." Governor Lin said: "But as long as we investigate the ingredients and sources of spices, we can find some useful clues." ”

"The child thought the same thing, so I went to Longquan Villa yesterday."

"Huh." Governor Lin smiled with relief, "Longquan Villa also has one of the murders, what clues have you found?" ”

"But father-in-law, the child mainly wants to enjoy the flowers, but the flowers are not appreciated."

"The sky is cold, everything is frozen, and everything is depressed, what flowers can bloom?"

"Father-in-law, what you said is common sense, have you forgotten that Longquan Villa can do such a strange thing?"

"Yes, if you hadn't reminded me, I would have almost forgotten." Governor Lin nodded yes.

Longquan Villa used to be just an ordinary place, but an accident one day three years ago made it a treasure of feng shui.

Yin Tianwei didn't know about the changes that had occurred in Longquan Villa, but it was only later that a family member in the villa told him what happened, and he began to pay attention to Longquan Villa. After that day, the land of Longquan Villa has undergone a mutation, every autumn and winter, there will be a warm earth atmosphere in the ground, which condenses into a transparent fog, hovering over Longquan Villa, isolating the cold air from the outside world, forming a closed small world.

Du Pengfei, the owner of the village, is a smart person, and when he saw the warm spring scene of the four seasons of the year, he immediately arranged for his subordinates to buy back all kinds of flower seeds and plant them in the villa out of season. When the flowers are killed in winter, Longquan Villa is still full of flowers, and he makes a lot of money by selling flowers. Then he used the money from the sale of flowers to buy many strange flowers from the Western Regions and plant them in the mountain villa, and the price of selling them in autumn and winter was unimaginable.

In this way, he became a well-known rich man in the country by snowballing, and Longquan Villa became the richest mountain villa in the world. Du Pengfei's legendary story of getting rich slowly reached the ears of the concubines in the palace, and everyone has a love for beauty, not to mention the lonely heroine in the palace. In order to compete for favor and save face, they arranged for their eunuchs and palace maids to come to Longquan Villa to buy flowers to add to the interest of their palace.

One spread ten, ten spread hundreds, Du Pengfei's reputation became bigger and bigger, and finally alarmed the emperor. One day, the emperor accompanied the queen mother to Longquan Villa to enjoy the flowers in his spare time, Du Pengfei wasted no time in proposing to the emperor to donate half of his net worth to the treasury, the emperor saw that he had such sincerity, and couldn't help but be happy. He personally inscribed Du Pengfei's name with a pen and named him a sincere uncle.

At this moment, Du Pengfei was even more proud, and even the emperor looked at him differently, and those courtiers were naturally more observant. As if it was an overnight thing, the dignitaries and nobles in the capital competed to associate with him, and his identity became more and more noble, and the threshold of Longquan Villa naturally rose with the tide. If ordinary people want to enter the village to play, they must also make an appointment in advance to submit the name post, and get his permission to enter the village on a later date.

Because of this, Yin Tiancheng has a lot of complaints about Longquan Villa. The identity of the first victim in this series of murders was the family of the villa, and Yin Tiancheng wanted to take the opportunity to enter the village to investigate the case, but was turned away by Du Pengfei. Yesterday, he went to visit the owner of the village again, but he still ate the closed door, which made Yin Tiancheng feel annoyed.

When Yin Tiancheng and Lin Zhifu talked about Longquan Villa again, his mood became relaxed. Because Yin Tiancheng knew that with the gold medal given by the emperor, Du Pengfei could no longer find a reason to refuse him, and he could investigate anything related to the case in the villa as he wanted.

Thinking of this, Yin Tiancheng felt that he should strike while the iron was hot, and immediately went to Longquan Villa to investigate the origin of the red powder. So he said to Governor Lin: "Father-in-law, now that the gold medal is in hand, I should go to Longquan Villa as soon as possible to investigate the case." ”

"Okay, but it's not early, you have to go early and come back early, don't have any more accidents." Governor Lin did not accede to his request.