In late autumn and early winter, the weather is suddenly cold, and the sky is always dark, like the face of a thirsty sleeper.

Dongzi Town, Zhang Butcher's house.

Outside, the people were surrounded by good deeds, all of whom stretched their necks and opened their eyes wide to see what was going on. If it weren't for the official at the door, Zhun Bao would have trampled on the butcher's house.

Liu Yingyi walked into the house, the house was quite clean, and the front yard looked normal, only there was a large pool of blood on the side of the wall in the inner room, and there was a series of trailing footprints in the backyard, extending into the yard.

Butcher Zhang fell face down in the middle of the courtyard, with a pig-killing knife stuck in his back.

Liu Yingyi walked to the corpse, and the servant in the county office immediately stood up and saluted Liu Yingyi: "Lord Liu." ”

Liu Yingyi nodded slightly, and asked in a low voice: "The body has been carefully examined, what is the cause of death?" ”

"Back to my lord, there is a crack in the deceased's skull, but it is not a fatal wound. The back was stabbed straight into the heart with a pig killing knife, and the blow was fatal. ”

"It seems that the murderer's kung fu is not weak." Liu Yingyi said in her heart.

This is the first homicide case that Liu Yingyi encountered as a county magistrate in Dongzi Town, and it is quite tricky.

But I heard a noise outside, and a servant was scolding someone, "Get out of the way, don't you see the adults handling the case inside?" No one has the time to go to your grocery store and buy a night pot. ”

After the last sentence, it drew laughter from the others.

Shui Qingxiang ignored the teasing of these officials, and looked at the courtyard with a serious face, "What I said is true, I have major clues to provide to you adults, and I can help you solve the case." ”

However, apparently no one believed Mizu's words.

"Let's go, Nightpot Girl, there's nothing for you here, and adults don't need you to help him solve the case." The official guarding outside Butcher Zhang's courtyard only thought that Shui Qingxiang was bragging, how could a teenage female doll have the ability to solve the case for the county magistrate.

Liu Yingyi glanced at Shui Qingxiang from a distance, a seemingly delicate and immature girl, and she did not show the slightest timidity in the face of the arrogant officials, either she was ignorant and ignorant, or she really knew some inside information.

"Who's that?" Liu Yingyi asked Qin Zhutou beside him.

Qin Zhutou responded: "Lord Hui, that is the young owner of the Shuiji grocery store in the town, because the best thing sold in the shop is the night pot, so the townspeople jokingly call her 'Night Pot Girl'." ”

"Does she have clues to this case?"

Qin Zhutou couldn't help laughing: "Adults don't know, this night pot girl fell from a tree a year ago and hit her brain, and her behavior is very different from before." always said that she came from the future, and she walked with us, but anyone who stole melons or threw a needle and thread, she could check the chickens and dogs. ”

Oh, it turned out to be a fool, it's a pity. Liu Yingyi glanced in the direction of Shui Qingxiang with some sympathy.

He didn't care about this look, but it happened that Shui Qingxiang saw that the eyes of the two people collided in mid-air, Shui Qingxiang seemed to see a life-saving straw, and hurriedly beckoned in the direction of Lord Liu, "Adult, adult, the villain really has important clues to report to the adult......"

Qin Zhutou was afraid that if Shui Qingxiang continued to make trouble like this, Lord Liu would be angry with him, and immediately said to Liu Yingyi flatteringly: "My lord, I will send someone to drive away this night pot girl." ”

Liu Yingyi waved her sleeves: "No, call her over." ”

There are no clues to this murder case yet, and it is good to be able to listen to the clues provided by others, even if the clues provided are the ridiculous Night Pot Girl.

Qin Zhutou's face sank, and his heart was not happy, but he didn't want to say anything. stepped forward and said something to Shui Qingxiang, and Shui Qingxiang followed Qin Zhutou to Liu Yingyi with joy on her face.

Liu Yingyi glanced at Shui Qingxiang carefully, this girl has very white skin, the facial features on her petite face that can be broken by blowing can be blown are upright and delicate, and a pair of clear eyes with water and spirit are full of cleverness, perhaps seeing that Liu Yingyi is finally willing to see herself, her cherry-like little lips are slightly curved, with a kind of delicate cuteness that is pleasing to the eye.

"Your Excellency." Shui Qingxiang saluted Liu Yingyi.

"Well, I heard you have clues about this case?" Liu Yingyi was not vague with her, and went straight to the point as soon as they met.

"Exactly. My lord, that butcher is a foreigner, he just moved into this town five years ago, although he is a butcher, but his family's butcher shop is rarely opened, and he rarely interacts with people, but his life is leisurely and rich, and he has no other ability to make a living. As soon as Shui Qingxiang talked about the case, she couldn't help but substitute for her previous life's profession and talked about the case endlessly.

Liu Yingyi's eyes flashed with a gleam, and he asked with a little surprise: "You are very familiar with this butcher?" ”

"No, he once went to my grocery store to buy things, at most he knows him. Regarding the situation of these deceased, I heard from the neighbors of Zhang's butcher's house half an hour ago. ”

Oh, this girl who sells night pots is quite gossipy.

"You just said that there is an important clue to this case, what is it?"

"Well, my lord, the night pot that smashed Butcher Zhang was sold by my family." Shui Qingxiang said a little embarrassed.

"Oh?" Liu Yingyi's eyes hurriedly swept over the broken porcelain in the house, the murderer was very strong, and the night pot used to smash Butcher Zhang was shattered, and it was difficult to see the original appearance of the murder weapon.

"To tell you the truth, most of the night pots used by the people in this town are from my shop, but this butcher's house doesn't seem to use night pots." Mizuharuka began to derive her own ideas.

Liu Yingyi's brows frowned, and he looked at the other party suspiciously: "How do you know that he doesn't need a night pot." ”

Shui Qingxiang walked straight to a flower bush in the backyard, and then turned her head to show Liu Yingyi a look, "My lord, please look, I have been doubting since just now, do you see that the smell here is heavier than other flavors?" It can be seen that this butcher usually doesn't use a night pot at all, and he urinates in this flower. ”

When Liu Yingyi heard this, her handsome jade-like face changed slightly, and she said that this girl was not very old, and she didn't have the slightest shyness when she talked about it, and she really had her brain smashed.

Qin Zhutou coughed heavily, "Even if that's the case, what does that have to do with this case?" ”

"Of course." This may be a professional habit, when Shui Qingxiang was a criminal policeman in her previous life, she always liked to re-examine the whole case like a cocoon, and did not let go of the slightest clue.

Shui Qingxiang walked back to the room quickly, picked up one of the porcelain pieces, and said to Liu Yingyi and Qin Zhutou: "My lord, please see, although this night pot was used as a murder weapon by the murderer, but the inside is clean, it can be seen that this is a brand new night pot, and it has never been used." ”

Liu Yingyi was stunned, don't say it, it seems to be true.

"Bringing a night pot to see Butcher Zhang in the middle of the night, it can be seen that the murderer not only knows Butcher Zhang, but also knows him very well, otherwise he would not know that Butcher Zhang's house does not have a night pot, and he specially bought one to bring to him."

Hiss——, Liu Yingyi suddenly felt that the little lady in front of her said that there were clues, and it was not all nonsense.

"Then in your opinion, this murderer who went to Butcher Zhang with a night pot is a guest in your shop?" Liu Yingyi's brain is not stupid, and she quickly followed Shui Qingxiang's train of thought.

"Well, my lord, although this night pot is new, it may not have been bought recently. Moreover, this night pot is a bestseller in my store, which will be more troublesome to count. ”

Originally, the night pot in the Shuiji grocery store was a clue to the case, but listening to Shui Qingxiang's words, this clue was also broken, Liu Yingyi couldn't help frowning when she heard it, and asked, "This is the clue you asked me to provide?" ”

"Of course it's more than that." Shui Qingxiang used the criminal investigation knowledge she learned in her previous life to go through the entire case, and quickly sketched a portrait of the murderer, "The person who killed Butcher Zhang is less than ten years old from Butcher Zhang, maybe younger than him, but not as tall as Butcher Zhang." I haven't been in this town for a long time, maybe I live in an inconspicuous place in the town, and I don't like to interact with people, but I like to go to crowded places to find out the news. This person may seem inconspicuous, but he is a profound, and he may have committed murders in other places. ”

Qin Zhutou was a little unconvinced, this is a big case that their county government has handled for the first time, I thought that there was an opportunity for me to show my skills, but I didn't expect to be preempted by this night pot girl, and talked about the case with adults, where did I put myself in Dongzi County?

Qin Zhutou snorted, "Look at what you said, it's as if you've seen a murderer." ”

"I haven't seen the murderer, I'm just reasoning about the case." Shui Qingxiang talked about the matter, and didn't understand where the inexplicable resentment of this Qin Zhutou came from.

Qin Zhutou looked quite burly, and his face sank to look even more fierce, he grabbed Shui Qingxiang's arm: "If you haven't seen the real murderer, you can deduce the appearance of the murderer, unless it is a Da Luo Immortal, if it is not the murderer himself, it must be inseparable from the murderer." ”

"Qin Zhutou, what you say is so unreasonable. Isn't it chilling that I was kind enough to handle the case for you, but I was wronged by you? Shui Qingxiang spoke with ridicule, her eyebrows raised slightly when she spoke, and her cherry mouth bent slightly, but she was not very annoyed.

"Tell me, then, how did you deduce the murderer?" Liu Yingyi stood with her hands in her hands like a tall green pine, wearing an official hat, although her handsome appearance was a bit feminine, she had a righteous face, and her narrow eyes were staring at Shui Qingxiang for a moment.

Just now I was just talking about the case, Shui Qingxiang didn't look at the county magistrate carefully, but now that she is so close, she can see it clearly. He is not as old as Shui Qingxiang imagined, about his early twenties, his face is like a crown of jade, his temperament is dusty, vaguely with the bearing of a rich son, and he does not lack the majesty of an official, but he has a pair of peach blossom eyes that are shining, at first glance he looks a little like a fox, and he is looking at himself slightly like now, which always makes Shui Qingxiang feel like a little white rabbit targeted by a fox.

Shui Qingxiang's heartbeat suddenly seemed to skip a beat, he must have thought too much, and the county magistrate was just meeting for the first time, and he wanted Xiao to think about what he was doing.

Shui Qingxiang's expression quickly returned to normal, and began to tell her inference in front of everyone: "My lord, Butcher Zhang rarely interacts with people, and this person comes to Butcher Zhang at night, he must be familiar with Butcher Zhang. This place is in the middle of nowhere, and if anyone comes, the neighbors must know it, but no one has ever seen the murderer, so it can be seen that the murderer deliberately avoided the eyes of others. Therefore, I guessed that the murderer was not a local, but only inquired about Butcher Zhang's residence in the town, and only dared to visit in the middle of the night. ”

"Besides, the age of the murderer, the villain sees that this butcher is only in his early thirties, and he is strong, and the other party can use a night pot to knock off the head of the butcher, and the knife is fatal, it is enough to see that the murderer must be a young and strong person."

"How did you deduce that the murderer knew martial arts and was not as tall as Butcher Zhang?" Qin Zhutou didn't believe that Shui Qingxiang could even get this right.

Facing Qin Zhutou's questioning, Shui Qingxiang walked to the corpse unhurriedly: "Qin Zhutou, please see, the murderer shot from behind and pierced Butcher Zhang's heart with a knife, and the direction of the knife was diagonally inserted into the back from bottom to top, indicating that the murderer was shorter than Butcher Zhang." The shot is clean and clean, without the slightest superfluous action. It stands to reason that Butcher Zhang uses a knife all year round, and he will at least struggle when he is attacked by the murderer, but the murderer is fatal with one blow, in addition to the fact that the murderer and Butcher Zhang are familiar with each other, more importantly, this murderer knows martial arts, and his martial arts are higher than Butcher Zhang. ”

"What do you mean, Butcher Zhang also knows martial arts?" Liu Yingyi heard the clues in Shui Qingxiang's words.

Shui Qingxiang squatted down and touched one of the palms of the butcher, "My lord, look, there are thick calluses in the center of this butcher's palm, which are thicker than the cocoons of this tiger's mouth." It stands to reason that he is a butcher, who holds a pig-killing knife all the year round, and should have the thickest hand calloused in the tiger's mouth, but now this is the opposite. ”

Qin Zhutou's eyes widened, "You mean, this butcher used to make swords. ”

"Qin Zhutou is worthy of being an expert in using weapons, and he is really smart about ice and snow." Shui Qingxiang lost no time in making a joke with Qin Zhutou.

Qin Zhutou's old face turned red, and he actually had a feeling that a woman from a good family was being molested by bad people, and he couldn't help coughing lightly.

"Seeing that you are not very old, you are quite fond of figuring things out." Liu Yingyi's narrow peach blossom eyes looked at Shui Qingxiang slyly, her eyes were thoughtful, and there was a hint of a smile on the corner of her mouth, which made people unable to see through his thoughts at this time.

It has been a year and nine months since Shui Qingxiang crossed into this world, and it has always been a piece of her heart to be unable to do her old job, and now when she encounters a rare opportunity, she hurriedly salutes Liu Yingyi again, "My lord, I don't hide it, the little girl has always wanted to be a fast catcher, and she wants to solve the case in the yamen and share her worries for the adult." ”

When Qin Zhutou heard this, Shui Qingxiang actually came to grab a job in front of him, and he immediately scolded loudly: "Bold, it is enough for the Yamen to solve the case with an adult, and you are a little woman who dares to share the worries of the adult, I really don't know how thick the sky is." ”

"Hehe, Qin Zhutou, in this way, do you know that the sky is high and the earth is thick? Tell me, then, how high is the heavens, and how thick is the earth? "Lord Liu, who looks mild-mannered, didn't expect to choke people so ruthlessly.

"My lord, I'm ......" Qin Zhutou was choked and his face was red, and he stood in place for a while.

Shui Qingxiang thought about it, is the adult trying to relieve himself? So, I think that the goal of the yamen can be achieved?

Strike while the iron is hot. Shui Qingxiang didn't think about it, so she added: "As long as the adults are willing to keep me in the county government to investigate the case, the salary can be halved." ”

"We'll talk about that later. If you really catch the murderer, and the murderer is as you said, it's not impossible to think about it. Liu Yingyi said it well.

Shui Qingxiang felt a chill in her heart, feeling that these officials were really more hypocritical than the other, and one was more official than the other. Although Lord Liu didn't explicitly reject himself, he didn't make it clear what he was, and what he said was the same as if he didn't say anything.

A look of disappointment flashed on Shui Qingxiang's face, but Liu Yingyi asked with interest, "Your shop is near here?" ”

"Well, it's not too far, it's two miles away, and it's only two streets away from the town."

"What else do you have to tell about the case?"

"Well, no, my lord."

Shui Qingxiang instinctively felt that this case was not so simple, she had been in this world for so long, and for the first time, she had the feeling of handling the case back then, but this feeling was too short. If she can stay and continue to investigate the scene, she believes that she will be able to get more information that will help solve the case.

However, just after her gaze stayed on Yoo Young-yi's face for a few seconds, she didn't get the answer she wanted, and Shui Qingxiang's heart fell to the bottom in an instant.

"Water girl, thank you for the clues you provided today. Another day, the official will visit again. ”

Shui Qingxiang felt that what he said was a kind word, why did the dignified county magistrate visit a grocery store that mainly sells night pots. That sentence was clearly an eviction order.

"Your Excellency is gracious." Shui Qingxiang left with a disappointed look.

Qin Zhutou looked at Shui Qingxiang's back and sighed slightly, "This girl is too capable of making trouble." ”

"Troublesome? If you're all like her, I'll be easy. Liu Yingyi nodded, which can be regarded as a criticism of Qin Zhutou.

Qin Zhutou's old face turned red, and he couldn't figure out how this crazy girl who sold pots had fallen into the eyes of the county magistrate so quickly, "My lord, what are we going to do next?" ”

"Of course, it's going to be another time."