Li Mi is a criminal investigator, and he has a sensitive sense of touch that is different from ordinary people for this kind of organ that hides small things, and the angle of consideration is also different.

However, this small pavilion is too simple, the wood such as pillars and beams has no hollow and dark grids, and there is a solid stone table in the middle, and the floor is bluestone, and there is nothing peculiar.

Li Mi searched for most of the day, but found nothing, and he was so tired that he was sweating profusely, so he had to sit down and carefully sort out his thoughts.

When he was clueless, there was a wind, Li Mi suddenly felt cool, but at this time he heard a crisp bamboo sound, and when he looked up, there were bamboo sticks hanging around the pavilion, like wind chimes hitting each other, making a crisp sound.

"What is this?"

Lu Chongning didn't think that he had been to the garden much, so he turned his gaze to the girl in the room, and the little girl with a big head like a doll immediately explained.

"These are the signs that the young lady and the old grandmother went to the temple to ask for back..."

Li Mi didn't know much about ancient folk customs, so he couldn't help asking: "Are there such rules?" ”

The girl shook her head and said: "There is no other, the young lady said to the old grandmother, if you ask for a first-class signature, you will hang it in this pavilion, and it will be auspicious... The old grandmother is superstitious, so every time she asks for a signature, she will make people hang here..."

When Li Mi heard this, he couldn't help but be disappointed, Xu is thinking about things, and the girl in the room couldn't help but sigh: "Although the young lady doesn't like to come to this garden, she will pick some good signatures every time, and let the old lady call people to hang, the young lady is really considerate..."

When Lu Chongning heard this, he was also sad, and couldn't help patting the shoulder of the girl in the room, and the master and servant were also in tears.

Li Mi didn't realize it at first, but after thinking about it for a while, he couldn't help but suddenly get excited, and asked the girl in the room: "You are right, these signs are carefully selected by the young lady?" ”

The girl in the room didn't know why, so she nodded confusedly: "Yes, the young lady said, although some of the signs are also signed, but the gods have intentions, and it is not good to hang them, these signs are all picked out by the young lady with great effort..."

Li Mi couldn't help but feel hot in his heart, and took down those sticks one after another, and arranged them on the stone table, but the proverbs on these sticks were far-fetched, and they didn't make sense on the surface, but they were ambiguous.

"No. 1 sign, Zhou Gong faked a dream and ordered white clothes, and he hit the horse Yulin Pond every day."

Li Mi picked up a skewer and couldn't help but read it out in a whisper, but the girl in the room next to her explained with a little joy on the side.

"This is two months early, the young lady asked the young master to sign up, hoping that the young master can take the high school exam..."

Li Mi picked up another one, but it was the No. 6 stick, and it read: "The sword eyebrows and stars are like Song Yu, and the rich gods are handsome and elegant." ”

The girl in the room smiled again: "This is the marriage sign for the little girl of the uncle of the third room, and the uncle told the little girl that the son of Jia Maocai in Changzhou County is indeed a handsome young man..."

Li Mi subconsciously felt that these sticks must contain some kind of information, but he couldn't see the reason for a while, there were too many of these sticks, and it was a little difficult to screen them.

Hearing the girl in the room talking about the origin of these signs like a few treasures, Li Mi couldn't help but be happy, and stared at the girl in the room with a smile, and the girl couldn't help but blush.

"Girl, come and find it, there is something in this sign that you don't recognize!"

"Don't you recognize?" The girl in the room couldn't help but wonder, but she still followed Li Mi's instructions and came to the stone table.

She is too familiar with these signs, she picks them one by one, and she can tell the origin and meaning of the signs, and even remember the specific dates.

After a long time, seeing that it was dark, Li Mi was a little annoyed, and the girl in the room stopped talking, just buried her head in selection, and finally sighed in surprise!

"Sir, here's a new sign..."

When Li Mi heard this, he couldn't help jumping up excitedly, grabbed the skewer and looked at it, and it was engraved on it: "The new gourd is filled with old wine, and the old tree has green branches."

It's an ambiguous old routine again, but the girl in the room recognizes it carefully, and this sign was not available earlier!

Li Mi looked up and looked up, and it was written in cinnabar, No. 4 sign.

Did the Zhang family come to this garden just for this new stick? Could this sign be a cipher letter to deliver information?

If it is a cryptographic letter, it must have two parts, one is the information pool, and the other is the key to extract information, this sign is too simple, if you want to decrypt, then the proverb on the sign should be the information pool, and can be used as a key, there is only the signature on the letter!

"No. 1 sign, Zhou Gong's fake dream is white, the corresponding should be a Zhou character, the No. 6 sign, the sword eyebrows and stars look like Song Yu, and the corresponding is a Song character... No. 4 sign, new gourd aged wine... It's a cliché..."

Li Mi lined up all these sticks and asked Lu Chongning to find a pen and paper, and after a short time, dozens of words were listed on the paper.

How much information can be conveyed by just one word?

Li Mi looked at it, and these words didn't have much nutrition, and he couldn't see what was going on for a while.

Li Mi even tried to combine these words, but even with the help of Lu Chongning, a veteran showman, he had nothing to gain for a while, and the words and sentences were made up without connotation.

Li Mi also had a headache, thinking that he had found the reason for Zhang's departure, but he was blocked from the truth by these suspected password letters.

Lu Chongning was naturally anxious, if it weren't for Li Mi's investigation, he wouldn't have known that his wife had prayed for the whole family so many times, let alone these small details in life.

He really cherishes his wife, these small details seem to make him know his wife again, and he agrees more with Li Mi.

In fact, another reason why he agrees with Li Mi is that Li Mi let him participate in it, and such writing work will reflect the value of his talent, as if he also has the ability to avenge his wife!

"Mr. Li, seeing that the sky is getting dark, let's take the sign, and it's not too late to go back to dinner and then deliberate."

Li Mi also knew that if he wanted to hurry, he would not be able to reach it, so he nodded and said, "That's it." ”

The three of them were about to pack up their things and go back to dinner, but at this time, a family member hurriedly ran in and said to Lu Chongning: "Young master, there is an official outside, saying that there is something to report on the case..."

Lu Chongning thought that the government would delay, but he didn't expect someone to come so soon, so he immediately said to the man: "Bring him in." ”

The man ran out again, and soon brought in a servant in a green coat and soap shoes.

"The villain has seen Lu Maocai." Although Lu Chongning lost confidence in the government, he still returned the salute and asked the officer, "What happened to Brother Gong this time?" ”

The official took out an official document from his arms, handed it to Lu Chongning and said: "The county lord asked the villain to come over and give Maocai a card ticket, Mrs. Zun's case has been revealed, and the princess informed Maocai that he will go to the county office tomorrow to close the case..."

"What? Case closed? What the hell is going on? Who is the murderer! This time, not only Lu Chongning, but also Li Mi was taken aback!

"That's the case, after we returned to the government, we sent someone to post the document and catch the witness, but someone reported it earlier, the farmer Chen Shi had committed suicide out of fear of crime, and in the suicide note he left, he confessed to the crime of murdering Mrs. Zun, so the case was closed."

"Chen Shi! This is impossible, he is a farmer, where does he know how to write a suicide note! Seeing that the fog was about to be lifted, at this time, such a sudden appearance came, and Li Mi couldn't sit still.

The official said with a sneer: "What? Could it be that our entire county government can't compare to you? You are the smartest in the world, and everyone else is stupid? Now that there is evidence, the case should be closed, how can you question it at all! ”

When Lu Chongning heard this, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and muttered to himself: "After checking for a long time, I never thought that it was this dog, so to speak, the so-called witnesses were all made up by this dog who was killed by the knife!" ”

Lu Chongning was still crying and scolding, but Li Mi's mind was racing, and he muttered to himself: "Chen Shi... Chen Shi... Old... Old! ”

Li Mi seemed to have caught something, and immediately ran back to the pavilion and grabbed the new sign of Shicai, and the decryption on the sign was not just a Chen word!

Looking further at the paper, he finally found the common denominator of these words!

Most of the characters in it, such as Zhou, Song, Zheng, and Chen, are all surnames!

Could it be that the Chen on this new sign is alluding to Chen Shi? But what secrets does this crop man have with the Zhang family?

A large amount of information poured out of Li Mi's mind, as messy as a spider's web, but it seemed that he could sort it all out with just a flick, but he didn't know which place to dial!

He shook his head vigorously, put these distractions aside for the time being, and grabbed another stick, this girl is also a delicate girl, and has already arranged these sticks in chronological order.

Li Mi took the skewer and asked the girl in the room, "When is this sign?" ”

The girl in the room glanced at it, recalled it a little, and replied, "It's February 15..."

Li Mi glanced at it, and the sign read: "If you don't meet on the other side, you have a chance to pull the red line." ”

"The twelfth sign is a red letter... Red... Flood! ”

Li Mi seemed to have grasped the key, and asked the officer, "Is there a murder in mid-February?" The bitter lord is surnamed Hong! ”

The official was shocked by Li Mi's aura, recalled it, and stammered: "There is no murder... We don't have anyone surnamed Hong here..."

Li Mi seemed to have been poured a basin of cold water, but he was still not discouraged, grabbed a skewer again, asked the girl in the room, and then turned to the official and said, "Was there a person surnamed Su who was victimized a few years ago?" ”

"Years ago... I'm not a torture chamber scribe, so I don't remember so much..."

Li Mi couldn't help glaring at the official fiercely, the official was a lowly person, and he was the most bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, Li Mi didn't even pay attention to the priest of the torture room, and after he became tough, the official was honest.

Li Mi couldn't come up with a reason, and was thinking about going to the scribe of the torture room to check, but at this time, the official patted his head and said.

"Ah, I remember, there is indeed no bitter master surnamed Hong, but the Fan Ju family in Changzhou County has a daughter named Aunt Hong, who is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and she was lost in mid-February, and she hasn't been found yet..."

Li Mi's heart was suddenly shocked, looking at the dense piece of paper, as if he had dug up a treasure mountain, this time he didn't just have to go to the torture room in Wu County, but he was afraid that even Changzhou County would have to go!

Lu Chongning saw that Li Mi's eyes were burning, his chest was undulating, and he couldn't help asking, "Sir, sir?" ”

Li Mi came back to his senses at this time, and he couldn't bear to say anything on the spot, so he just said to him: "It's okay, I'll accompany you to the county office tomorrow." ”

The official looked at Li Mi, muttered something in a low voice, and then withdrew, Lu Chongning took Li Mi out of the garden, and at this time, on the outer wall of the garden, a black shadow flashed quickly, as if it was an illusion.

When the night fell, the dark clouds were like a big quilt soaked in ink, pressing low overhead, as if they would collapse at any time, destroying the entire Lu Mansion and making it impossible to reveal all the secrets!