"Well, that girl, you wait here first, I'll go to Lao Wang to ask for copper." The shopkeeper smiled happily, and after a few words of advice, he ran out, and after about a quarter of an hour, he ran back out of breath.

He shook the thing he was holding in front of my eyes, and said happily: "Girl, look, I brought back the copper, and I will make a scabbard for you." As he spoke, he was going to start smelting the copper.

The shopkeeper was fat and fat, and he was already out of breath and sweating profusely, and the heat of the stove made me feel a little hot when I sat outside, let alone squatting next to the stove.

I smiled and beckoned to the shopkeeper, "I said Uncle, you're too hard, aren't you?" I'm not in a hurry, you better sit down and have a cup of tea and rest first, anyway, it's not bad for a while. ”

The shopkeeper shook his head vigorously and muttered: "Then what's the matter, I have to call you out as soon as possible, otherwise you will wait too long, and you want to find someone else, so what should I do?" My family is still waiting for me to make money to eat, and I can't delay this for you. ”

Listening to his casual words, my heart suddenly felt a little mixed, and I couldn't help asking, "Uncle, do you feel tired of life?"

The shopkeeper looked up at me, smacked his mouth, shook his head and waved his hand, "Girl, isn't this question pure nonsense?" In life, how can anyone live without being tired? From the poor people bending their waists for five buckets of rice, to the kings working hard for the community, it's just that they are at different levels and the things they face are also different. ”

After an hour, the scabbard was completed, and the whole body was purple copper, although it was not a rare material, but it was barely used, and when I found other good materials, I decided to rebuild it.

When he paid the money and was about to go back to the inn to sleep, there was a loud shouting in the street, looking for prestige, and the large crowd gathered together, as if they were watching something.

When I walked in, I found that in the middle of the crowd, there was a corpse lying there horizontally, with dark and swollen skin, purple lips, and many places on the body and rotting, crawling with white maggots, looking extremely disgusting.

The rancid smell of corpses and the smell of blood permeated the four fields of Fang Yuan, and in a trance, someone next to him couldn't stand it anymore, ran to the grass not far away and began to vomit.

"It's disgusting!"

"Gross~~ I can't stand it!"

Most of the crowd dispersed at once, and they couldn't stand the smell of rancid and bloody mixed together, let alone the tragic state of the corpse, so they only dared to hide in the distance and cover their mouths and noses with their hands, poke out half of their heads, and watch.

I leapt to the top of a pavilion and took a closer look at the surrounding buildings, where the corpse had suddenly fallen from mid-air.

As far as the eye can see, most of the buildings around here are bungalows, and there are only three few high-rise buildings, one is called Tongyuan Building, which is mainly engaged in the business of collecting and selling antiques; The other two are the restaurant and the spring house.

After a while, the officials arrived, and after dispersing the crowd, he began to go forward to conduct an autopsy, saying: "The deceased is a male, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with sediment deposits in his mouth and nose, and he died of drowning."

"Drowning? The corpse should have been consigned and then dumped on the street, but what was the purpose of the murderer? Got enough to eat and have nothing to do? I pinched my chin and muttered.

After all, the risk of transporting a body from the place where it drowned into the city is too great to guarantee that it will outweigh the losses by being discovered.

Jingzhou Mansion Yin attaches great importance to this case, and bans all the ten miles from the scene of the dumping of the body, and before the case is investigated, no unrelated person is allowed to move around outside at will, otherwise they will be treated as suspects.

As for the Qinglou, the restaurant and the Tongyuan antique shop, these three high-rise buildings that are most likely to throw corpses have naturally become the object of suspicion.

"Anyway, I don't have anything to do these days, so why don't you just pass the time on this case?" I rolled my eyes, thought of it, and immediately clapped my hands and went to the Jingzhou General Mansion.

When he came to the gate of the headquarters, he was just about to step on the steps and was about to go inside, but he was stopped by two officials guarding the door and asked, "Who is it?" What to do here! ”

I clasped my hands into fists and said with a smile: "Two brothers, please inform me, I want to see your Fu Yin here."

The two officials glanced at each other, and immediately sneered, and said, "Who do you think you are, we adults can see you if you want?" Let's go, don't get in the way here. ”

Another official also opened his mouth with a look of disdain, and said, "Let's go quickly, this is the Jingzhou Mansion, can anyone enter?" You still want to see me, it's a fool's dream, get out of here. ”

I frowned slightly, why did these two guards smell of gunpowder so much? I touched my nose and said, "Then if you want to say that, I can only force my way into the Jingzhou General Mansion today?"

"Breaking?" One of them sneered and said, "As for you, a weak woman who has no power to restrain chickens, it is estimated that you can't even pass the level of the two of us, and you still want to break into the general mansion, I advise you to go back to wash and sleep quickly, and it may be feasible to daydream."

"I think it's you who should be sleeping." I smiled at them, and at the same time a slap of the sword fell, and the two officials rolled their eyes, and fell into a coma.

"Wouldn't it be okay if I let me in early?" I smiled, clapped my hands, and was about to continue walking inside, but suddenly there was a chaotic sound of footsteps inside, followed by dozens of big knives with waist swords, holding long sticks, rushed out, and surrounded me without saying a word.

"This mansion wants to see which gangster dares to come here to make trouble!" At the same time, a loud shout was heard from the outside of the crowd, it was a man's voice, sounding about forty years old.

Sure enough, when the catchers gave way to a passage, a middle-aged man dressed in an eight-rank yellow oriole official uniform and wearing a black gauze hat walked towards him.

This person's face is round, with a standard Chinese face, a mustache above his lips, and above him is his red, very conspicuous wine trough nose.

He is fat, so when he walks, some of the fat on his body will shake with his steps, and he looks full of joy.

"Excuse me...... You are? I looked at him and asked tentatively.

"Hmph, I don't even know who this mansion is." The middle-aged man snorted coldly and said, "Say my name, startle you, this mansion is this Jingzhou Mansion Yin, Tian Lu is also!"

"You are Jingzhou Mansion Yin? Great, I'm looking for you! "When I heard that the other party was Jingzhou Mansion Yin, my face suddenly showed a look of surprise.

Tian Lu looked at me with some doubts and said, "What do you want to do with this mansion to redress your grievances?"

I waved my hand again and again and explained, "No, no, no, I want to investigate the murder that happened today."

At this point, everyone present was shocked, and even the Jingzhou Mansion Yin-Tian Lu showed an unbelievable look on his face, and said, "Girl, what you just said, this mansion didn't hear it wrong, right?" You said you were going to investigate the murder that happened today? ”

"Yes, anyway, I'm idle these days, so it's better to follow you to investigate the case."

"Then you're going to look into the case?"

"Hmm...... Estimate... Should... Yes. I scratched at my hair in embarrassment.

After Tian Lu pondered for a while, he looked at me, then at the catchers, waved his hand and sighed lightly: "Okay, the corpse that was thrown on the street today has been placed in the morgue, as long as you can find out the cause of his death, this government will naturally consider letting you investigate the case."

"Really?"

"Really, we do what we say."

"Where's the morgue?"

"Go through the door and follow this direction, and the innermost room will be you."

"Okay, auntie, I'll go and find out the cause of death!" I touched my nose, agreed, and walked in his direction.

"My lord, why did you really let her go to the morgue? After all, she is just a weak woman, and it is just a whim to say that the investigation is just a whim, and it is not true. ”

"yes, I think when I first entered the morgue, I was scared and had nightmares for three days in a row, what if that girl was scared out of something inside?"

"Don't just have nightmares, the main thing is that the smell is too strong, not ordinary people can bear, I almost vomited my intestines last time."

After I walked away, those catchers came to Tian Lu and talked about it.

Tian Lu chuckled and shook his head, and said, "What you thought of, did this mansion not think of?" The government asked her to go to the morgue to find out the cause of the deceased's death, first, to see her opinion on this aspect, and second, to see if she could tolerate the conditions of the morgue. If she could, she would have agreed to let her investigate the case. ”

Looking to the other side, I walked in the direction pointed by Tian Lu, and sure enough, on the edge of a dead end, I found a house.

I took a deep breath and boldly pushed the door open and entered, which was simply decorated, with seven candles and six oil lamps, placed in the corner of the room.

As soon as I came in, a disgusting smell of rancid and bloody came to my face, if I hadn't been prepared and sealed my mouth and nose with internal force in advance, I would have vomited at this time.

"How can it feel a little eerie?" I rubbed my hands together and looked at the stretchers in the middle of the room, one of which was the same body that had been brought back from the street today, now covered with a white cloth.

I stepped forward and lifted a corner of the white cloth on the corpse, the extremely unpleasant smell was even stronger, and it was a little difficult for me to open my eyes, and finally I had no choice but to leave the room first and go to the door to think about countermeasures.