This can be regarded as a family of poetry hairpins, with portraits of ancestors hanging on the main hall, and a couplet on both sides:

The mountains and rivers flow to open the scene

The kite flying fish leaps into the sky

I saw a master trembling over, and the man in red got up and arched his hand and said, "We are good friends of Ling Lang, and we have come to look for him today." ”

"I have severed the father-son relationship with him, he is not worthy to be the descendant of our Ruan family!"

"I don't know...... What's going on?"

"Alas, haven't you heard? It's not for that singer! Half a year ago, he had to marry a dramatist, and it turned the world upside down, and then we forced each other to die, so he said that he broke off his relationship with that actor. But a month ago, he proposed to marry that actor, and he didn't know that...... The demon has snatched his soul away, and he has gone mad, and we have cast him out. The ancestor can't afford to lose this face, if he really marries a drama and goes home, we won't be able to raise our heads and be human beings for the rest of our lives!"

The three of them came out and inquired about Ruan Gongzi's residence from the little girl in the ear room.

But it's three small washers.

Although the yard is a little remote and small, it is also an elegant place, with flowers and grass, and it can be seen that there are often people playing with it.

One of the doors on the side was hidden, and the man in red pushed the door in first, and after looking at it for a long time, he found a person lying motionless in the bathtub.

I walked in and saw that another one was dead.

The Divine Bird Boy followed closely, and was shocked when he saw it, and hurriedly raised his hand to signal Shuying not to come in, naked, except for his head, everything else was soaked in the water.

Thinking that it was inconvenient for the girl to check, the boy picked up a piece of cloth on the bed to cover half of the corpse, and then found: "The corpse is so fresh, could it be that the murderer just left?"

No one expected that Shuying stepped forward to check and found a corpse spot between his neck and hairline: "No, his time of death should be before Ziyun." ”

But the body did not decompose. ”

"And how do you determine the time of death?"

"The deceased was soaked in cold water in order to mislead others, because if he really bathed in hot water, his skin would be pale reddish-brown and exposed to the outside would be pale, but there was no dividing line of soaking in water on his body, and he should have been soaked in cold water from the beginning. ”

"The murderer soaked him in cold water, so it didn't smell so much, but at the same time, it would also mislead the judge of the time of death, and it would take at least a day and a half to form such a serious corpse spot in cold water. ”

Shuying continued: "The deceased should have been strangled, and the tool of the crime was a rope, but the pattern of this rope is a bit strange. ”

"The two cases are similar, and there is at least reason to believe that the same person was responsible. ”

Look at the warmth and sophistication of this room, with the atmosphere of a literati and a writer, with a whole wall of bookshelves and a bed.

In the other room, there is a guqin and some calligraphy and paintings, but there are no strings on the qin.

Shuying instantly thought that the strangulation marks on her neck might be made of strings.

The whole picture was quickly constructed in my mind:

Ruan Gongzi was killed first, and Ziyun was also killed later.

It is obvious that after the murderer killed Ruan Gongzi, he filled the bathtub with water, and then threw the body into the bathtub, trying to pretend that Ruan Gongzi died of illness while taking a bath.

If Ruan Gongzi really died in the bath, it has been two days now, and the skin that has been soaked in warm water should be pale reddish-brown, while the skin exposed outside should be pale.

But now there is no clear dividing line in his body.

Judging by the marks on his neck, he was strangled first, and then caused suffocation, but it should not be a rope.

There were no traces of thick rope rubbing in the scars, no fibers, and most likely a strand of string twisted from the strings.

Ruan Gongzi didn't look like a helpless man, but he didn't fight back at all, as if he had been attacked and was defenseless.

A man's self-esteem, in addition to money, may be for women.

What does the piece of jade that Ziyun held on his deathbed represent?

Once like glue, but in the end you have to give up?

Maybe she was just wishful thinking, maybe she once wanted to marry him, but he didn't marry you, but you still want to keep this half of the jade.

Or maybe she wanted to find another person to make up for it, so she found a third person?

Shuying decided that she should look for clues from this piece of jade first.

So he asked the man in red: "Where is there a shop that sells jade pendants around here?"

"Only Xingsheng Street in the south of the city has a few shops selling jade pendants. ”

"If it were you, which store would you go to?"

"If I were Ziyun, I would choose to go to Yuxitang. ”

"Why?"

"Because his family specializes in Lantian jade. ”

"Then let's ask. ”

When I came to Yuxi Hall, I saw that it was all Lantian jade placed in the square: "Shopkeeper, do you see that this piece of jade belongs to your family?"

The shopkeeper saw that the guests were busy smiling and greeted him, took the jade and looked at it carefully: "This jade is my family's, unique, it is said that it is a whole round piece of material carved into two pieces, and put together is a gossip shape." ”

"Then do you remember who bought this piece of jade?"

"We have too many deals here, and whoever buys and sells only keeps accounts, not people. I can't remember it for too long, there is only one in the world, it should be worn by husbands and wives or sisters, but jade of this color is a rare treasure. ”

The three of them carefully looked at the jade, the color was lush, and a plum blossom pattern was engraved on the back.

Shuying looked carefully at the bag containing the jade, which was made of rope into a hollow pocket and placed the jade inside.

And this pocket is very special, the line is very thin, it looks like a fishing net, and the knotting method is also like the way of fishing nets.

From this, it can be inferred that Yunlin is still in love with this plum blossom boy. ”

"Could it be a betrayal?"

"It is extremely likely that an acquaintance committed the crime. ”

"Then let's go find this plum boy together. ”

"There's a plum grove near the red wall of the bamboo fence just now, so why don't we go there and look for it. ”

When you come to Merlin, the river is sparkling, and there are a few fishermen casting nets in the river.

Looking at the nets in their hands, everyone thought of the bag of this jade pendant, could it be made by a person who can weave fishing nets? Or was it made by the person who bought the jade himself?

The man in red shouted to the old man on the shore to come to the shore: "Uncle, is there a boy surnamed Mei fishing here near here?"

The old man was honest and simple, put down the bamboo pole of the boat, and said: "I haven't heard of the people surnamed Mei, but there are some young men here who make a living by fishing." ”

"And where do they sell the fish?"

"There is a plum blossom ferry to the east, and every day there are fishmongers who come to collect fish, or people who pass by the village come to buy fish. ”