Chapter 2 The Boy in Red and the Boy of the Divine Bird

In the statement of the nine-colored deer, the man was disgraced, and in an instant his body was covered with rotten sores, and his mouth emitted a foul smell......

Shuying's thoughts wandered along with the mural, and the sound of "Yo Yo" just now came from outside the cave, as if it was getting closer and closer, like the cry of a baby......

I don't know what it is?

Shuying ran out of the cave and looked-

It turned out to be a deer.

The deer's eyes were as black as lacquer, just like those painted on the rock wall of the cave:

The body is white, the form is graceful, gentle and moving.

Outside the cave, on both sides of the river, Ke Ye is sparse, the pavilion is open, and the flowing spring lingers.

The sky is clean and dust-free, and the sunset is faint, as if it is innocent.

This grotto cave is huge, looking from afar, like a dilapidated ancient city, there are thousands of holes of large and small, which is a grand view.

The white deer paced forward two steps, squatted down again, and when he saw Shuying, he made a deer chirp again, as if he was saying something......

A little bit of spirit, Shuying rode on the deer, and it ran happily.

Broken flowers are all over the ground, and the yellow willows are cross-sloped, so quiet and comfortable.

Walking across a stone bridge, the clear stream in the stone is turbulent, and the fence is fragrant.

Passing by a green forest, the leaves are fluttering, and the sparse forest is picturesque.

Over a hill, the warm day is a greeting, and the words are added.

Finally, I came to the street market, which was crowded and very lively.

Shuying thought about coming down and walking around, and saw this—I don't know which dynasty and which generation of the city is prosperous.

The layout of this street market is different from the stalls set up in the shooting scene of Hengdian Film and Television City, it is a centralized row of markets, dozens of rows are full, there are shoes sellers, ready-to-wear people, and scissors sellers, and there is a sign hanging next to it, with the book "Yangzhou Time-honored Brand". And there are those who sell embroidered purses, fan-surfaces, and all kinds of colors.

The bookstall sells not the villain books and picture books she imagined, but Song-style movable type printing, with exquisite packaging outside, full of antiquity.

And there are those who sell veil handkerchiefs, and the embroidery is very exquisite, and the brim of the hat hangs a whole circle of long translucent veil.

She remembered the plot of Mu Wanqing and Duan Yu in Jin Yong's novel, Mu Wanqing also wore such a veil, saying that the first man to see her face was her father-in-law.

Seeing that the design of this cloak veil is very interesting, I also took off a hat and put it on to try, through the veil, the street market looms, and at this time with a sword or a flute, as if becoming a woman walking the rivers and lakes.

The breeze stirs the veil and gently floats the ripples......

Through the crack, she saw a boy walking in front of her:

Wearing a pair of thick-soled red shoes, half of the rouge sprinkled silk skirt, on which the magenta flowers eight clusters of satin tassel gown, the whole body is red.

He wears a purple and gold crown with a bundle of hair on his head, and his eyebrows are embroidered with two dragons playing with pearls and gold silk to wipe his forehead.

The eyebrows are green, looking forward to being amorous, the language is smiling, the corners of the eyes are piled up, and the spirit is flying.

There is also a son beside him:

The boy wore a mythical bird mask on the upper half of his face, with the curved beak of the large bird and the colored feathers of the face.

A pair of eyes with affection is not something that a mask can hide.

If the lips are greased, the skin is as white as the moon, and the literary quality is polite.

Covered with a dragonfly lotus pond three green arrow sleeves, the hair is black and shiny like lacquer, all into small braids, tied to the top of the head, and a miniature fan pendant on the hairpin.

He wears a name lock, amulet and other things, and wears a small red satin foundation boot.

The two sons got closer and closer, and Shuying was embarrassed to look directly, and in the afterglow, he found that the prince of the divine bird also glanced at him affectionately.

Here the white deer carried me along the willow embankment by the lake, and I didn't know where I was going.

Passing by a secluded place, with red walls and black tiles, a bamboo fence and a few plantains.

It contrasts with the walking white deer, and there is an artistic conception in Chen Hongshou's paintings.

Coming in from the courtyard gate, there is a pavilion on the right that draws the shape of a boat standing on the lake, and when you walk into the front of the boat, the breeze is gentle, and there is a feeling of a boat sailing on the lake.

There is a verandah on the right, and if you go inside, you will enter a small three-room hall. There are three clears in the main hall, and the room is unusually cold.

Suddenly, a sound of astonishment came from the side hall, and Shuying hurriedly went over, just in time to collide with the two people running out of the door.

The two of them were walking out in a panic, and it turned out to be the two sons they had just met. One of them, the young man wearing the mask of the divine bird, said to her, "Girl, don't stay here, go out with us." ”

"What happened?" asked Shuying.

The two of them stood for a moment, calmed their frightened eyes, and said, "There's a girl inside—dead." ”

Shuying was also very surprised when she heard this: "Don't panic, two sons, wait for me to go in and have a look." ”

"Don't go in, I'm afraid it will scare you. ”

Shuying nodded slightly to express her gratitude, and entered the side hall, and sure enough, there was a woman leaning against the wall, her eyes were so unwilling, staring straight at the door, not moving at all.

"This girl seems to have seen her somewhere, how familiar is it?"

Shuying's heart hurt involuntarily, as if she had been cut by a knife.

Looking at her painful expression, it seems that she has experienced great grief before her death.

Shuying stepped forward to take a look, and saw that the two sons also followed, thinking that they might know this girl when they came here: "Do you know this girl?"

The two of them said: "I don't know, we thought this was a quiet place to drink tea and chat, I never thought that we would encounter such a thing, girl, let's leave here quickly and go to report to the official." ”

Shuying scrutinized the familiar girl: her clothes hadn't been torn, just a little messy, and she had a deep groove around her neck.

The childe wearing the mask of the divine bird asked, "This sister, what do you see?"

"You see, there are no signs of being hit on the head, but there are marks on the wrists, which look like they have been abrased by rope, and there is a slight oozing blood, indicating that she was bound before. Looking at the strangulation marks on her neck and the black blue nails on her fingernails, it shows that she died of mechanical suffocation caused by being strangled by someone. ”

The two were intrigued by Shuying's reasoning, and the man in red asked, "What is mechanical suffocation?"

"Strangled or drowned. ”

The Divine Bird Boy asked again, "Then when was she strangled?"

"I've got to look at the skin on her body, can you help me lay her down?"

The two carefully lifted the girl flat.

The man in red made a gesture at the girl, and they all stood outside the door to avoid it.

Shuying carefully unbuttoned her clothes and carefully examined the condition of her body: the corpse spots were all over her body, and she had been dead for at least seventeen hours. Then the time of her death, based on the time of almost 10 a.m. now, should be-

"It's four or five o'clock in the morning. ”

"How did the girl figure it out?"

"It is calculated based on the degree of corpse spots on the body. ”

The Divine Bird Boy asked, "Why did a girl appear here in the early hours of the morning?"

Shuying was also puzzled, "What is the murderer's motive for killing?"