After listening to me, Taifu Ling pinched a pinch of his beard while muttering thoughtfully: "This antique shop and the Spring Building, both of which have a grudge against the deceased, and both have motives for killing, but the place where the body was dumped happened in an unrelated restaurant...... Why is this so messy? ”

"Could it be that the two of them joined forces, killed the deceased, and then blamed the proprietress of the restaurant?" The master next to him guessed.

"It's not impossible." Taifu ordered all the thoughts, raised his hand and summoned two big and three rough catchers, and ordered: "Bear heart, leopard gall, you go to investigate, find out where the bosses of these three families have gone during this time, and who they have met, and then sort them out for the mansion to see."

After the explanation, Taifu Ling turned his gaze to me again and said, "That girl, I still don't know what to call you."

I scratched my hair and said with some embarrassment: "My surname is Xue, as for the name, it is not convenient to disclose it for the time being." ”

"Okay, then this mansion will call you Miss Xue." Taifu Ling nodded slightly, but he didn't ask deeply, touched the unique wine trough nose, sighed lightly, and said: "To be honest, you are a weak woman, you can do this, it really shocks the mansion, but you should not investigate this case, go home quickly."

"Huh? Why, the three-day deadline hasn't been released yet, why are you driving me away? Am I doing something bad? I looked stunned, and suddenly I was anxious, and after thinking about it carefully, I didn't seem to have done anything wrong. Why don't you let me continue to look it up?

Taifu Ling shook his head with a smile and said, "Silly girl, you have done a good job, but after all, you are just a woman, and you don't even have the ability to protect yourself." I thought that if you were given some hardship, you would retreat, but I didn't expect you to grit your teeth and persevere. ”

Speaking of this, he sighed lightly and continued: "But this investigation is a dangerous job after all, you said that you are powerless, if in the process of investigating the case, you encounter some vicious murderers, then what can you do?" As an official of the imperial court, you must not joke with your life. ”

What?! What should I be, I was afraid that I would encounter danger when investigating the case, and I thought it was because I didn't investigate carefully enough to stop me.

I immediately breathed a sigh of relief, waved my hand again and again, and chuckled: "My lord, you don't have to worry about this, auntie...... Ahem, this girl's kung fu, although she can't be said to be invincible in the world, but she can barely protect herself, so let me investigate this case. ”

"Do you know martial arts?" Taifu Ling exclaimed, and after a while, he smiled again, and said: "Miss Xue, this mansion knows that you like to investigate cases, but you don't have to find this kind of excuse to bluff this mansion, you say that you have fine skin and tender meat, fine hands and feet, and say that you can do martial arts?" Who believes it? ”

I shrugged my shoulders and tilted my head, looking helpless, and said, "My lord, it's really not me who blows, everyone in your house can't pass a trick in my hands, do you believe it or not?" If you don't believe me, you can let them come and try it. ”

"Okay, then the government will pick a few people to compete with you, and if you win, then let you continue to investigate the case." Taifu Ling was refreshed, and led me to an open flat land, and a few more sturdy catchers came to come.

At the end, he didn't forget to remind: "I said Miss Xue, or forget it, don't be reckless, it's not good to get hurt." ”

I smiled at him: "Not reluctantly, just move your hands and feet." ”

As soon as the words fell, my figure flashed, and I appeared directly in front of a catcher, five fingers together, and a palm was struck, landing on the man's chest, shaking it to a wall three meters away.

Immediately after using his hands and feet at the same time, after a few back and forth, the few people who had disdainful faces just now fell to the ground neatly at this time.

The whole process only happened in an instant, Taifu Ling's eyes were about to fall to the ground, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and then exclaimed: "What happened just now?!" I'm not mistaken, right?! ”

"You read that right, I have all taken them down." I clapped my hands for a long time, walked over with a smile, and said, "My lord, do you believe in my strength now?"

Taifu Ling came back to his senses, immediately straightened his waist and cleared his throat, and said: "Miss Xue is really good, the government will now appoint you as the first female head catcher in the capital of Jingzhou, and the arresters and officials within the general mansion will be at your disposal, and you will stay in the general mansion to do things for the mansion in the future." ”

I hesitated for a moment, but still smiled and shirked, and said: "My lord, after this case is over, I should leave, I still have important things to do, I can't stay with you for long, I can forget the identity of this head catcher." ”

I decided to investigate this case just because I had nothing to do for a while, after all, after waiting for the Dao Han head of the Nine Immortals Palace to come out of the customs and untie the festival between her and Master Mo Qi, it was almost time for me to go back to Chang'an to resume my life.

Taifu Ling showed regret on his face, and finally sighed helplessly, and said: "Since Miss Xue has said so, this mansion is not easy to make it difficult for others." Before the words fell, the person had already walked away.

When I left Taifu, it was getting late, the streets were empty, and the inexplicable corpse dumping case caused panic, and no one dared to come out and walk around at night, and walked and came to the door of the Qinglou.

"Yo~ It's so late, and the adults are still coming to investigate the case?" As soon as he entered the door, the old bustard greeted him with a round fan.

I sniffed her and saw that she had an indescribable smell on her, a bit like the scent of agarwood mixed with tulips.

I looked at her suspiciously and said, "What kind of smell do you have, so rushed." ”

The old bustard's eyes dodged, and he said, "This, this is ...... The smell of agarwood, yes, I just bought a batch of agarwood not long ago, maybe it was contaminated on my body when I counted the goods just now, and I just changed my clothes. After saying that, he wanted to leave, but I grabbed him.

"You just said agarwood?"

"yes, yes, what's wrong, sir?"

Agarwood ...... said in the "Hundred Poisons Sutra" that the taste of the strange poison of the Western Regions - Luoyansha is the agarwood fragrance! Thinking of this, I directly skimmed her aside and rushed to the geisha Wanyi's room on the second floor.

Tulips, there are a whole number of tulips in the room, and the old bustard said that the geisha Wanyi likes tulips, so he didn't think much about it.

But ever since I saw the proprietress in the restaurant using tulips to reduce the rancid smell, I vaguely felt that something was wrong, and the whole row of tulips in this room must be very useful.

But I didn't smell any rancid or bloody smell here, so what were they trying to hide? I searched the room, but I didn't find anything unfounded.

Wait a minute! There is another place that I haven't searched, that is, the wardrobe that stands in the corner of the wall and is more than two meters high!

The first time I came, the bustard repeatedly stopped me from approaching, and now it seems that the puzzle must be hidden in this closet.

"Click...... Click"

Then the two wooden doors of the wardrobe opened, revealing all the clothes that the geisha Wanyi had been wearing before her death, and I took them out and put them aside.

There is nothing unusual about the structure of the wardrobe, but the side against the wall is an empty board, indicating that there is no wall behind it.

"Sure enough, there are ghosts!" I raised my eyebrows, raised my hand and slammed my palm on the empty board, shattering it, and a dim and lightless tunnel appeared in front of me.

I grabbed an oil lamp and walked down the dark steps, where there was silence, except for the "clatter" of bootboards on the wooden steps.

The further down I went, the faster my heartbeat accelerated, and the more I felt a little chill behind my back, and the cold hairs all stood upside down.

"Zi Mo, you are the daughter of Tianzun, the third princess of the fairy world, and now you are also the crown princess with excellent martial arts, you are afraid of a hammer, don't be afraid, relax and relax, take a deep breath......" I secretly cheered myself up, and after a few deep breaths of air, I walked down again.

At this moment, a strong agarwood fragrance came to my nose, and I secretly screamed that it was not good, so I hurriedly sealed my mouth and nose.

If you didn't guess wrong, it should be the strange poison of the Western Regions - the smell of falling swallow sand.

After walking for a cup of tea, I finally came to a secret room, where the space was very small, and the side length was only about two meters.

Holding an oil lamp in my hand, I looked up and down the secret room in front of me in the faint light, and a large box was placed in the middle, which contained the powder that had been ground into the swallow sand.

Looking further along, there is a pale yellow portrait hanging on the wall, which looks like it must have been hanging here for some years.

The person in the portrait is a woman, born soft, with pink and delicate facial features, a pair of eyes like a deep green pool, eyebrows like fine willows, red lips and bright teeth, like Chang'e in the moon.

The portrait alone is already so good-looking, so the real person must be the kind of existence that makes people unable to extricate themselves at a glance.

"Is this the Geisha Wanyi? But why did her portrait appear in this secret room? I looked at the portrait on the wall as I pinched my chin and muttered to myself.

Suddenly, a black shadow came from behind with a sharp blade in his hand, the killing intent was pure, and by the time I came to my senses, the blade was already close to my throat, and I hurriedly dodged sideways, and kicked behind me at the same time.

"Bang!" The black shadow flew upside down and slammed into the wall behind it, and a mouthful of blood gushed out of its mouth.

"Who are you and how did you end up here?"

My face was condensed, the passage leading to the secret room was a wooden staircase, and there would be a sound when I entered, and I didn't hear any sound just now, which means that this person had been hiding here in the morning!

"Kill you... Kill you—" The man's voice was hoarse, as if it were a corpse speaking.

He struggled to his feet on the ground, put his hands on his chest, stuck out his tongue, and licked the blood that had just gushed out and stained his lips, like a bloodthirsty beast, hideous and terrifying.