The carcass of a dead pig that had been dead for seven days exuded an indescribable smell, like being squeezed into dozens of catties of rotten apples and thousand-year-old oil, with a disgusting greasy smell in the sour smell, which made people want to vomit as soon as they breathed.

Not to mention, this room full of flies.

"No, Lord Ben can't stand this, touch these dead pigs, Lord Ben's jade fingers will rot!" Ning Xiaoxiao hid far away and shouted towards this side.

"If you don't test it, who will test it, the youngest Qing official in history, Lord Ning!"

Chen You was a little angry, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he wanted to vomit.

"Vomit—vomit—"

The yacha of Luoshui City pinched his nose, fanned the flies with his hands, and said, "My lord, the farmer you are looking for has brought it, and there are just a few hundred ducks dead in their house. ”

"Hundreds?" Ning Xiaoxiao raised her eyebrows slightly, feeling an urge to run away immediately.

"Where do you want to go? If you don't test the dead pig, you will check the dead duck for the official. ”

Chen right gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice.

"Okay, okay, Lord Ben is going."

Ning Xiaoxiao tied the silk handkerchief covering her face, walked to the farmer, and asked carefully, "You are the farmer who lost hundreds of ducks at home?" ”

"Hui, Hui, it's a villain." The farmers looked nervous.

"How did you die, and when did you find out?"

"Five days ago."

Faced with those serpentine eyes, the farmer carefully recalled the scene.

"About five days ago, that morning, I woke up and noticed a hazy fog in the duck pen, and then I looked closer and found that hundreds of ducks were all dead. The farmers were very excited, and their eyes were full of pity.

"Poisoned too?" Ning Xiaoxiao said suspiciously.

"Back to my lord, it should be, with the villain's many years of experience in raising ducks, he rolled his eyes, stretched out his tongue, straightened his little feet, foamed at the mouth, and was full of blood, he must have been poisoned."

"Empirically? Have you checked it out? ”

Huang Zongzhe, the little brother of the servant, answered Ning Xiaoxiao's question.

"Back to my lord, the county official and the old man have asked him to take a general look, it is said that he was smoked to death by a special herb, this grass is called 'Youyou Grass', smelled, first the limbs were weak, but hallucinations, and finally he would foam at the mouth and die."

"Gloomy grass? Isn't this herb commonly used to smoke mosquitoes? How can it smoke a duck to death? ”

Ning Xiaoxiao raised her eyebrows slightly, feeling that this kind of case began to become more and more intriguing.

"According to the legend, the grass can not only smoke mosquitoes, but if it is excessive, the smoke will block the mouth and nose, and the ducks will be poisoned and suffocated to death."

"Overdose, how much is overdose?"

The little brother thought about it very seriously, opened his hands and gestured: "Only one plant is enough for ordinary smoked mosquitoes, but to poison hundreds of ducks, at least a few catties of grass must be burned." ”

"That's strange, farmer, do you live far from the duck pen? Nearby, no neighbors? ”

Hearing this, the farmer was stunned and asked in surprise, "My lord, how do you know?" My family lives on the side of the mountain, there are no neighbors, and the duck pen is near the river, not far away. ”

"Not far?"

"Eh, it's probably a stick of incense." The farmer said humbly.

"A stick of incense? Raise hundreds of ducks, don't put them around, are you willing to do it? Aren't you afraid of being robbed by jackals, tigers and leopards in the middle of the night? Ning Xiaoxiao laughed.

"The villain didn't think about it so much, the villain also raised chickens, sheep, and cows at home, thinking that he was idle anyway, so he raised a flock of ducks by the river and lived a life." The farmer said proudly.

"You're pretty good at getting by, where is the duck's carcass?" Ning Xiaoxiao turned her head and asked the little brother of the servant.

"Lord Hui, it's in the next room, but the smell is not as good as this, you have to be mentally prepared, the duck has been dead for a long time, and it is estimated that the corpses are all decomposed." Brother Zongzhe kindly reminded.

"It's not that bad, no matter how smelly it is, it can compare to the smell of this room?"

Ning Xiaoxiao looked at Chen You, who was vomiting and inspecting the pig, and silently gave a thumbs up in her heart, it really deserves to be you, Lord Chenyou.

"That's the Lord Ben has passed, don't say that Lord Ben is lazy."

Ning Xiaoxiao, who originally thought she had picked up a big bargain, walked into the next room, couldn't hold on for a moment, turned around and couldn't help but run out.

"Wow, what does this smell like?"

It seems that on a rainy day, the damp smell of thousands of stinky socks that have not dried up together, and those ducks, which turned out to be ducklings that were born for a few days.

What kind of autopsy is there?

It's all duck dried, like a dry mango heart, you can see what the ghost is.

"My lord, don't worry, these ducks, we are all separated, and it is not so easy to spread the plague if we say this." The little brother of the servant was full of pride.

"Really?"

Ning Xiaoxiao took out another handkerchief, as if she was picking up dried sweet potatoes, picked them up one by one to look at them, and asked casually, "Does this happen often?" ”

"Back to my lord, this kind of thing is not only in our Luoshui City, but also happens in other cities, some people will poison other people's chickens, ducks and fish for some trivial reasons, and they don't care about the livelihood of other people's families, in their eyes, it is domestic animals that are poisoned, not people."

"So, they don't even think about whether they're going to kill people by doing this."

Listening to the words of the little brother, Ning Xiaoxiao suddenly raised her eyes and looked at this kind young man.

"You're right, so, we have to find out the murderer, report the details of the case, and hope that the saint can come to kill chickens and monkeys once, whether it is business or life, we should not cross the line."

"Okay, my lord, what more orders do you want, even if you say it, the lowly will definitely cooperate fully." The little brother said enthusiastically.

"That's good."

A hint of cunning suddenly flashed in Ning Xiaoxiao's eyes, and the corners of her mouth were raised evilly.

"Great, sir?"

The little brother felt a little bad.

"Go and knock out, the ducks are disemboweled, check some, their beaks, their necks, see if there's any dust in their throats?"

"Dust?"

Although the little brother didn't understand it very well, he still did it, so Ning Xiaoxiao successfully forced a young official full of enthusiasm, and after slaughtering hundreds of ducks, he vomited and fell to the ground.

Ning Xiaoxiao covered her nose, looked at the little brother Zongzhe who was carried out, shook her head and said, "The physical fitness of your yamen officials needs to be strengthened." ”

Suddenly, his shoulders weighed.

Chen's right hand was full of lard on Ning Xiaoxiao's shoulder, and the lard dripping from his fingers was like blood dripping from the executioner's broadsword, and with the crispy feeling of lard, it seeped into Ning Xiaoxiao's clothes drop by drop.

The feeling of almost wanting to vomit, the mountain rain is coming.

"Let's go eat."

Chen Youyun invited lightly.

"Your Excellency, you..."

Ning Xiaoxiao looked at him with black lines on her face, and couldn't help but bow her head and vomit.

"Vomit—vomit—"

"Ah, after slaughtering thirty-six pigs, Lord Ben is already able to do all the 'pigs'." Tatsumi said solemnly.

"Let go of me, heck-"

Ning Xiaoxiao pushed Chen Right away and rushed back to the inn at a speed of 100 meters.

"No one can stop the pace of Lord Ben's bathing, the aunt in front of me get out of the way-"

*

A carriage swayed to the door of the inn, and happened to pass by Ning Xiaoxiao in a hurry, Shun Hua opened the silk cloth and looked at the name of the inn - Yue Lai Xuan.

"Miss, is there anything wrong with this inn?"

"There's no problem, it's just that I've been watching it for a long time and want to change my name."

Shunhua frowned slightly, and found that the name of the store that his father had changed before was all Xuan, which was really strange.

"Come on, good frost, you can change the name of this inn."

"Really?" The little girl put her head out of the carriage in surprise, looked at the inn, and said without thinking: "Since it is an inn, it is to let the guests rest in peace, so it is called - how about the rest inn?" ”

Rest Inn?

Why didn't Frost just suggest that she turn the inn into a coffin shop?

"Miss, what do you think?"

"Ahem... It's good, it's good. ”

Shunhua looked away from her eyes weakly, trying not to make eye contact with Yan Shuangshuang, who was full of anticipation.

"Then what are you going to change, about building a new sign of the inn, Frost can help Zhang Luo."

The little girl said enthusiastically.

"Hey, Frost, look, there's your favorite preserved fruit!" Shunhua wittily changed the subject.

"Really? The frost is going to be bought. ”

Seeing the little girl happily get out of the carriage and rush towards the preserved fruit shop, Shunhua was suddenly relieved.

Ah, quietly escaped.

She looked back at the plaque of the inn and sighed, "The name Yue Lai Xuan is really good. ”

After a while, the little girl rattled into the preserved fruit in her mouth and ran back.

"Miss, the preserved fruit has been bought, are you going upstairs to talk to others about buying land?"

"Well, what about Frost, do you want to follow?" She asked softly.

The little girl looked intently at the bustling street, the fragrant fried glutinous ba, baked cakes, and grilled squid, and said against her will while enduring her saliva: "Miss, where are you going, where will Shuangshuang go?" ”

Shunhua sneered, turned to the twin brothers, and said, "Okay, you two go shopping with her, eat enough, and then catch her back." ”

"Yes, Miss." The three of them happily ran down the street, gathered around the squid grilling stall, laughing incessantly.

Shunhua hid the smile at the corner of his mouth slightly, and stepped into the inn with a serious face, preoccupied.

On weekdays, the purchase and sale of land is handled by the housekeeper Gu, why does this seller have to talk to her in person before he is willing to transfer the land?

"Guest officer, are you sharpened or staying in the hotel?" Xiao Er, who didn't recognize her, introduced it politely.

She looked at the guests on the first floor of the inn quietly, all of them were ordinary people, not like someone was ambushed here.

"I've made an appointment, let's take Mrs. Ben to the private room upstairs."

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and reacted, "It turns out that the person the son made an appointment with is a distinguished guest, please come here." ”

Step by step, she walked up the steps, and the closer she got to the attic, the stronger the feeling of apprehension and uneasiness became.

It was as if she was about to meet someone, someone she should have seen, but had never seen.

"Childe, it's here."

The sound of the little boy sounded in his ears, and the man paused unnaturally in his teasing movements, and then continued to hold the feathers and quietly tease the happy birds in the cage.

"Your Excellency is Boss Lu of Luoshui City?" Shunhua took the lead.

"You don't remember me? It's really a noble person who forgets things. ”

Although he said so, the man's action of teasing the bird did not pause at all, his eyes did not squint, and he did not take Shunhua in his eyes at all.

He... Know yourself?

"Since Your Excellency has no intention of being polite, then Mrs. Ben has no choice but to go straight in, how much do you want to bid for the land near the Dragon Mother Temple?"

The number flew in her head, and Steward Gu said that this land was conservatively estimated to cost 330,000 taels.

Even if it was only sold at 350,000 taels in the end, it was a big bargain.

After a while, the other party said in a flat tone: "Two hundred and seventy thousand taels, the title deed is here, you want silver, not silver tickets." ”

"Two hundred and seventy thousand taels?" Shunhua raised his voice slightly.

"Too expensive?"

He finally turned around and looked at her.

The man's long hair fell to one side, which happened to cover the scar on his right cheek, and those eyes were neither godless nor soulless, like a shell left behind by the soul that had been robbed of his soul.

What's even stranger is that in her memory, there is no such person.