No. 46 Garden Street, a white Romanesque building, was the official residence of the abbot of the Senate, Achillus.

The sudden visit of Octavian and others surprised and frightened Achillus's wife, Caboni.

When Octavian entered the house, he said, "What about my friend Achillus?" ”

Kabany hurriedly said, "He, he's in the bathroom." ”

"'Bathroom'?"

"How dare I bluff Augustus!"

"That's good! It's hot anyway, so let's wash it together! Octavian said and walked briskly in the direction of the bathroom.

Cuman and others followed.

***

Octavian walked to the bathroom door.

Orman stepped forward and knocked on the door, and said loudly, "Dean Ashiluth! ...”

But no echo was heard from the bathroom.

Octavian was extremely annoyed and said angrily, "What's the matter? ”

"Let me come." Kaboni hurried to the door and knocked on it, and cried out, "Ashiluth! How do you lock the door? Augustus is here, why don't you open the door quickly! ”

There was still no response in the bathroom.

Kaboni hurriedly said, "Ashiluth!? Ashiluth!? ”

Octavian glanced at Cuman.

Cuman pulled Kaboni open and kicked the door open.

Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them.

Achillus's bloated, fat naked body lay in a bath already stained red with blood.

Kabany cried out her husband's name and ran in.

Octavian and others also walked into the bathroom.

There was a bloody dagger by the bath.

Apparently, the artery in Achillus' left wrist was severed by this dagger.

Cuman crouched down, probed his fingers under Ashiluth's nose, and shook his head.

Octavian looked at the corpse of Achillus and pondered calmly.

Li Xiang's nose sniffed, smelled a strange fragrance, looked around, and found a special incense burner for the bathroom in the corner of the wall, so he walked over, sniffed it again, and made sure that the fragrance was wafting out of this incense burner.

Orman walked up to Li Xiang and said, "Did you find something?" ”

Li Xiang shook his head and said, "I didn't find anything special, I just felt that the fragrance wafting from this incense burner was curious, it smelled very good, and it smelled very comfortable." ”

Orman sniffed it carefully and said, "It smells like a dazzling enchantress." ”

"'Dazzling Enchantress'?" Li Xiang said.

Octavian and Cuman also came over.

"It's indeed the scent of the Enchantress." Cuman confirmed.

"The name sounds special." Li Xiang said.

Cuman explained: "The Enchantress is a peculiar seven-colored flower from Mesopotamia, and when the petals are dried and placed in the incense burner, this strange fragrance is produced, and the smell is very pleasant, but..."

Auman said, "... But if you drink tea made from the petals of this flower at the same time, you will be delirious, hallucinating, and even insane..."

Without waiting for Kuman to finish speaking, Li Xiang walked quickly to the small coffee table, took the cup on the coffee table to Cuman, and said, "Let's see, is the stuff in this cup the enchantress you said?" ”

Orman took the cup and immediately recognized that it was the Enchantress who was soaked in the cup, and said, "Yes, it's the Enchantress." ”

"Li Xiang, how did you guess what's in the cup?" Octavian asked.

Li Xiang thought to himself: Eh! Could it be that I say it's because I've watched too many mystery movies? So he smiled slightly, so he said mysteriously: "Eh! Don't divulge it! ”

***

Inside the living room of the residence.

According to Li Xiang's instructions, Orman found the butler of the Ashiluth family.

The housekeeper was very sad to learn of the death of the head of the house.

Li Xiang said to the housekeeper: "Okay, people can't be resurrected after death, so don't be too sad." I ask you, who is responsible for adding spices to the incense burner in the bathroom today? Also, who made the cup of tea that your master drank in the bathroom today? ”

"Let me think about it." The butler recalled for a moment, then said, "Jones, it's Jones." ”

At this moment, a scream came from nowhere.

***

The crowd gathered around the backyard cistern to watch.

Li Xiang and the others walked over.

It turned out that someone had found a body in the cistern.

The housekeeper hurriedly ordered someone to retrieve the body.

The corpse was severely swollen and deformed from the long immersion in water, and it was crawling with disgusting maggots, and the suffocating stench hit the face, and many people vomited as a result.

Li Xianghao took some dried petals of "Dazzling Enchantress" before, and was going to take them back to study them, which came in handy in advance, so he pinched the two petals and stuffed them into his nostrils, but he didn't expect it to really play the role of a "smelly firewall".

Li Xiang looked at the decomposed corpse, judging from the figure, he concluded that the deceased was a woman, judging from the degree of decay of the corpse, he should have been dead for at least three days, and he could die in the house of the head of the Senate, and it should not be an outsider, so he said to the housekeeper: "Can you recognize who the dead person is?" ”

The butler pinched his nose, looked at the corpse in the dim light, and said, "The face is rotten like this, how can you still recognize it!" ”

Li Xiang thought for a moment and said, "Has anyone in your family disappeared in the past few days?" ”

"Fifty or sixty house slaves, I really didn't pay attention, or I should call all the house slaves out!" The butler replied.

At the call of the housekeeper, the house slaves lined up according to their gender, men and women, and the housekeeper counted the number, and none of them were missing.

"Could it be that a thief came to steal something when it was dark, and because he was unfamiliar with the terrain, he fell into the cistern and drowned?" Cuman analyzed.

"Anyway, there is no one less of my people, maybe as Master Cuman analyzed, that person may really be a thief." The housekeeper said.

Cuman said: "'Stealing chickens does not make rice', and it is really deserved to die in the pool without stealing something." ”

Li Xiang shook his head.

Octavian opened his mouth and said, "You don't agree with their point of view? ”

"My gut tells me it's not that simple."

At this moment, Li Xiang inadvertently found that there was a reflection of metal objects on the corpse, so he took a closer look and found that the corpse was wearing an earring on its left ear, because he knew that in ancient Rome, wearing earrings on the pinna did not represent fashion, but slave status.

The slave's earrings will be engraved with the name given to the slave by the slave owner, and the first letter of the slave owner's name will be added before the slave's name, and the slave owner will submit the basic information of the slave to the slave management committee for the record.

Li Xiang approached the corpse and squatted down, because it was late and the lights were dim, so he had to take out the mobile phone hidden in his waist pocket and turn on the night light on the back of the phone.

The light emitted by the night light made the ancients feel very strange.

The name "A. Jones" is clearly visible on the earring worn by the corpse on the left ear.

This reminded Li Xiang that in the living room before, the housekeeper said that the name of the house slave who added spices and tea to the incense burner was also Jones, and the first letter of Ashilus's name happened to be the Latin letter "A", could there really be such a coincidence in the world? So, he got up and walked over to the butler, and whispered, "How many of you have Jones here?" ”

The butler whispered, "Of course there is only one!" ”

Li Xiang nodded and whispered, "Are you really sure that the person who helped your master make tea and add spices to the incense burner in the bathroom today is Jones?" ”

The butler whispered, "I'm sure I saw it with my own eyes." ”

"Okay, you tell me in a whisper." Li Xiang whispered, "Is the 'Jones' you said among those people?" ”

The housekeeper looked at the group of slave girls and said, "The team of slave girls, from left to right, seventh." ”

Li Xiang nodded, turned around and walked to the side of the two Auman brothers, and whispered: "The female slave team, counting from left to right, the seventh, that woman is the most suspicious." ”

The two brothers nodded and walked straight away.