Da Niu took the title deed to the courtyard where the county master and the master drank tea and chatted, and went in to see that they were still drinking tea. Xin said: "This kung fu tea is really hard work." ”

Wu County Ling took the pile of land deeds and said, "Da Niu, you tell that girl, our Master Liu took it, and when the county master comes back, he will stamp her with a seal." ”

After receiving the answer, Da Niu bowed down, but he kept pondering in his heart, how should he tell Sister Shu Yao?

Master Liu saw Da Niu's frowning appearance, and laughed: "My lord, you are really stumped by Da Niu's honest boy." ”

Wu Xianling stroked his beard and smiled: "You have to learn to let go, believe in them." This person will have a headache when he thinks about things when he is old, and he can't figure out the cases he worries about when he has a headache, and there are ready-made people with clear minds here, no, it's too much to say. Come, have a cup of tea with the old man. ”

Master Liu didn't say anything about this, just smiled blindly, but in his heart he mourned for those young people, who let you put up such a county order with a lot of hearts.

When Da Niu returned to the archives, Li Putou, Shen Xinlu, and Xiao Zheng were sorting out those notes, and they divided the pile of notes that were suspected of being fake Fengyue into three piles.

One is strips of cloth, the second is mulberry paper, and the third is ordinary paper. Nie Shuyao was looking at the notes back and forth, and she wanted to analyze what kind of person wrote them through these notes.

After seeing the big cow come in, Nie Shuyao said: "County master, ah no, did our master say that he would give me a seal when the county master came back." ”

The big cow nodded in embarrassment, unable to say a word.

Nie Shuyao's thoughts on the county master are one guess and one accurate, it seems that she doesn't say one, two, three, and her title deed can't be stamped with a red seal.

"I need a few basins of water."

Li Putou immediately ordered: "Da Niu hurry up and prepare." ”

Taking advantage of this gap, Nie Shuyao had already put on her gloves, picked up the note she had chosen, put it under her nose and sniffed it carefully. said: "This is indeed a cinnabar character. ”

Pure cinnabar is odorless. But most of the cinnabar powder used for writing is usually added with some other substances, such as spices, and these words give off a kind of taste.

And cinnabar was very expensive in ancient times. At this time, there is no synthesis, and it is not easy to mine cinnabar. Processing is also not easy. Grinding them into fine powders is done manually.

So there's no need to continue exploring this pile of notes!

Coming to the three piles of miscellaneous notes, Nie Shuyao picked out three strips of white cloth with red handwriting and black in handwriting, and asked, "When did this case happen?" ”

One of them is a wealthy family from Qu County, and the other two are from Ling County.

Xiao Zheng pointed to the note marked the 10th day of the 3rd month and said: "This is a theft case that happened on the 10th day of the first month of last month. The Li family has been in business for several generations, although they are small and wealthy, they are far from reaching the level of the big rich, and they also have many actions to save the poor on weekdays, and their reputation in Qu County is really good. ”

Nie Shuyao said: "This case is definitely not Fengyue's doing. This is written in blood. ”

She had sniffed the note, and it had a faint smell of blood.

Nie Shuyao is very confident in her sense of smell, which is the ability she has been whipped with a small leather by Nie since she was three years old. Nie felt that she was a woman, and she was bound to marry in the future, and once she married into the back house of a big family, then she would inevitably get involved in some dirty things of wives and concubines competing for favor, and having a good sense of smell and being able to identify herbs was more important than anything else.

"And there's something else to smell like this strip." Nie Shuyao frowned, sniffed again and said, "It's an oily smell." ”

She pointed to the other two pieces of cloth and asked, "Are these two cases from Ling County?" ”

Shen Xinlu said: "Yes, the time of the crime is in the first month and February respectively. ”

So. Nie Shuyao came to a conclusion and said, "These three cases were committed by the same person. You check if there are similarities between the three cases, but these three notes are basically the same. It was written in blood, and the cloth was slightly stained with oil. ”

A few people didn't understand much, their noses were normal, and they were very puzzled when they looked at Nie Shuyao.

Li Putou asked: "Miss Nie, this case always needs evidence, I don't know why Miss Nie knew that these three cases were committed by the same person?" ”

Nie Shuyao smiled: "Smell it." Moreover, this person should still be in Qu County, maybe he is planning the next case. It's been a month since the Li family's theft, and I think his money has been almost spent. Oh. One more thing comes to mind. ”

"Girl, please speak."

"That is, isn't Fengyue called the 'thief' who robs the rich and helps the poor? Then the silver he stole should have been distributed to the poor, and there were so many thefts in the two counties. With so much silver, someone must have benefited. ”

Li Putou nodded in response. "We'll be secretly visiting from tomorrow."

Nie Shuyao smiled: "Is there any evidence, I'll prove it to you later." Let's move on to the others. ”

Putting the three notes aside, she picked up the others and looked at them, put together one font, and picked out ten more cinnabar characters written on mulberry paper.

This word is very well written, compared to the word suspected of Fengyue, it is only less imposing, but after smelling it, I found that this is real cinnabar, but it has a little more fat powder flavor.

"I suspect that these 10 cases were committed by the same person, who should have read and written well. Don't put all the thieves on the Jianghu people, maybe this person is a scholar, and he is also a scholar who often goes in and out of Fengyue places. Nie Shuyao said.

Li Putou and the others hurriedly wrote these down, whether it was right or not, first write them down and find someone to check them according to these clues.

Speaking of this, Nie Shuyao reminded again: "When you go to that kind of place to check, it's best to check secretly to see who has often gone there to buy drunk in the past three months, and this person is good at painting with cinnabar." ”

There were only a few notes left, and Nie Shuyao also guessed one by one, and picked out two notes with oil stains, and the writing was extremely ugly. This paper is even cheaper, like a snack for some kind of bag.

"The man who did these two cases must have come from a lazy scoundrel in the market, and there may be a clue to where this paper came from. There should be a few famous scoundrels like this in every county, and see if their lives have changed these days, such as suddenly not coming to eat cheap snacks, wearing new clothes, etc. ”

Nie Shuyao finished speaking. Walking in front of the basins of clear water, he first put the note suspected of Fengyue into the water, and this word did not melt into the water at all.

"Cinnabar doesn't melt into water," she explains. And heavier than water, this note will sink immediately when you put it on water. ”

That's it. Sure enough, the note sank to the bottom.

Throwing the note written in blood into another basin of clear water again, it didn't take long for the red threads to emerge and scatter, and then sniffed again, and sure enough, there was a smell of blood.

Nie Shuyao said: "This blood can't tell what kind of blood it is, you can start to check some butchers, they have blood on their hands, and they are stained with oil all year round, and they will not naturally get oily when they hold this cloth." And it came to Qu County from Ling County. It shouldn't be hard to find. Wait, when the blood sinks, the oil will come up. ”

Leave the basin aside for the time being, throw the oil-stained note into a basin, and immediately a layer of oil floats on the water.

Nie Shuyao explained again: "Oil is lighter than water, so it will float on the surface of the water. ”

In the end, the one who took the mulberry paper also threw it into a basin of water, and although the mulberry paper was wet, the words on it still could not be dissolved. It proves that this is really cinnabar.

"As for the fat powder, I can't prove it. However, if you do what I say, you will find out. ”

A few people came to the note written in blood again and said, "See? The oil floated up. ”

That's it. The inner head poked over at the same time, and sure enough, it was like that, and there was a dark red layer under the water. There is a thin layer of oil floating on it.

Nie Shuyao smiled: "Remember that blood is heavier than water, and oil is lighter than water, so one is on top and one is below." And cinnabar is the heaviest, so it sinks into the water first. Except for these few sheets written in blood, the others are made of cinnabar, which is not cheap. However, there is no guarantee that someone will use the previous inventory, but you can also go to the place where the cinnabar is sold and ask who bought the cinnabar in combination with the day of the crime. And whether any of the people who have bought it overlap with the people I said, and if so, it is very doubtful. ”

"Good! Good! Li Zhutou and the others nodded again and again. Quickly wrote these down, of course, they were all recorded by Shen Xin. Because only he can use a pencil.

In the end, Nie Shuyao picked out a note that seemed to be Fengyue and said, "This case has been recorded, can I take this note back and study it again?" ”

This was left at the scene of the theft of a wealthy family in Ling County in the month of last year. Because this date made her think a lot, and there was a ...... on it.

Shen Xinlu looked at the note, nodded and said, "No problem, this case has been going on for a long time." And the rich man was gone, and he did not lose much of his silver. ”

After Nie Shuyao asked Yuqin to put away the note, she looked at Da Niu again, "Brother Da Niu, are you going to see the county master again?" ”

Da Niu ran to ask the county master again.

Not long after, he came back and said, "Sister Shuyao, the master said, why don't you put the rest of the title deeds with him, and let me send them to you when the county master comes back?" ”

Nie Shuyao thought about it, since he said so, it was not impossible. He gave all the remaining title deeds to Da Niu.

It was already noon when they left the county office, and the master and servant walked on the street as if they had something on their minds.

In the end, Yuqin couldn't help it and asked, "Miss, that note doesn't seem to be much different from the others." ”

"What's the difference?" Nie Shuyao said with a smile, Yuqin's observation is really getting better and better.

Yuqin said: "There is a corner on it that seems to be stained with coal ash. ”

After she finished speaking, she tilted her head and thought about it, and then affirmed: "We have all used coal stoves, and I am very sure of this, and I can't be wrong." ”

Nie Shuyao frowned slightly, and said, "Don't guess, this is not important, it must have been accidentally made by Master Shen." (To be continued)

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