As a guest who often plays scoundrels, Zhu Jiutou is a little famous in the spring courtyards, but he is not a real character, his death is not shocked, and the talk provided lasts for three days at most, if Jiang and Zheng had not inquired early, it is likely that they would never have heard his name mentioned again.

"Dead? When was this? Yuan Mao was more surprised than everyone else.

"It should have been last night, he died under the wall of Hu's house, he was not found all night, and he was frozen into a stick in the morning." Jiang Erpi suddenly laughed, "Lao Jia thought it was a drunk, he went up and kicked it twice, and found that it was a dead man, and his face was peeled off, and he was so scared that he crawled, and he always said that he was bold." Ha ha. ”

"The skin was peeled, how do you know it's Zhu Jiutou?" Yuan Mao asked again.

Zheng Sanhun raised his hand to cover his right cheek and said, "Half of it was peeled off and half is left, and it took a lot of people to recognize the identity." ”

Yuan Mao had nothing to say, and looked at Hu Guiyang and Wei Ying blankly.

"Did you inform his family?" Hu Guiyang asked.

"Whose family?" Jiang Erpi didn't understand.

"Zhu Jiutou."

"Probably not, because I've heard that the local government still has to report it as a nameless corpse."

"Huh?" Hu Guiyang frowned.

Wei Ying sighed, "It's the first month of the year, and the local government doesn't want to do a lot of things, and the nameless corpse will become an unsolved case in a few days, so you don't need to work hard to investigate, everyone saves effort and worry." ”

"Wei Baihu deserves to be an old yamen." Jiang Erpi flattered him, in fact, Wei Ying was only in her thirties, and she entered Jinyiwei relatively late, less than ten years.

"But someone has already recognized him, and the Zhu family can't find anyone, so they have to go to the government to report the case." Hu Guiyang was still puzzled.

Jiang Erpi said with a smile: "Without half of his face, the so-called recognition is just a guess, what if you don't guess accurately?" Anyway, no one will stand up to testify, as for the Zhu family, he would have been dead a long time ago, and he wouldn't ask at all, maybe he would continue to use his name to receive money. ”

Zhu Jiutou was born in a military family, and he received a little military salary, which was not enough for him to squander, and he often asked his family for money.

Hu Guiyang went to Zhu's house during the day, when Zhu Jiutou had been killed, but the news did not spread, and the attitude of the Zhu family was indeed extremely cold.

"I didn't expect him to be able to summon anything, just die, let's die, save a lot of trouble." Wei Ying never took this person seriously.

"It's really strange, it's time for me to meet......" Hu Guiyang couldn't wait to ignore it.

"Zhu Jiutou was killed last night, and you only wanted to see him this morning, so this is not 'just a part'." Wei Ying smiled.

"Peel off half of his face, who has such a grudge against him?" Hu Guiyang still has to ask questions.

"I know." Zheng Sanhun immediately said, "It must be someone from Wuque Hutong, Zhu Jiutou ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, and actually dared to use fake silver, so he was retaliated." ”

"That's right, half of the silver Zhu Jiutou brought was real and half fake, so he was ......" Jiang Erpi also raised his hand to cover half of his face.

"Then why are you throwing your body under the wall of my house? Is Wuque Alley threatening me? ”

"It turns out that Brother Gui Yang cares about this matter." Jiang Erpi finally understood, "It stands to reason that it won't, why?" If it's a threat, it should be thrown at the gate, not under the wall, that's the rule. ”

"Rules? It's as if you've thrown a lot of corpses. ”

"Hehe, I haven't thrown a corpse, but I've heard of it."

Wei Ying persuaded: "Don't be too suspicious, Wuque Hutong may not know that it is your home." Of course, if you must look it up, it's up to you. ”

Hu Guiyang pondered for a long time and said with a smile: "Forget it, I have a bunch of cases in my hands, how can I have the energy to investigate this?" I don't know whether to sympathize with the Zhu family or congratulate the Zhu family. ”

Jiang Erpi pursed his lips, "If you want me not to provoke the Zhu family, at this time, when you go to someone's door, whether it is sympathy or congratulations, it will be extremely annoying." ”

He didn't know that these three brocade guards had just passed over to the Zhu family today.

"Rest." Hu Guiyang yawned, "It seems that I have to look for clues in my dreams." Yuan Mao, do you want to go home or live here? ”

"I'm staying here from today until the end of the investigation."

"Front yard or backyard?"

"The four Inhumans ......"

"They didn't fight when I was there anyway."

"Then I'll live in the backyard."

Hu Guiyang went out and called Brother Hua and asked him to go to the backyard to clean up another room.

The others dispersed, and Jiang Erpi and Zheng Sanhun made fun of Zhu Jiutou as they walked, not taking his death seriously at all.

There is no need for Hu Guiyang to be on duty in the backyard at night, and the four strangers have reunited on the surface and have made arrangements.

The flatbread came to greet the owner, Yuan Mao looked at the two pieces of red jade, and said with emotion: "People are not as good as dogs." ”

"Hanging around your neck?"

Yuan Mao immediately shook his head, "It's not as good as a dog, it's not as good as a dog, who made me not have the guts?" Tell me, flatbread, where did your guts come from? ”

"Wangwang." The flatbread cried twice against the owner's leg, causing the two of them to laugh.

"I'll ask for another pot of wine, let's talk at night." Hu Guiyang suggested.

"It won't attract ...... Is that suspicious? "Yuan Mao means Wei Ying.

"You're not a peerless beauty, what's there to doubt? The old way said, we are friends of life and death, and it is suspicious not to have a candle night talk. ”

"That's right." Yuan Mao smiled and thought for a while, "You go back to the house first, I'll go to the front yard to ask for wine, and by the way, I will meet the housekeeper of the Zhao Mansion." ”

Ordering wine and food at night is a disgusting thing, but Yuan Mao has his own way to coax Mrs. Hua to be happy, the wine is boiling soup, the side dishes are all delicious, Mrs. Hua personally brought it, with a smile on her face, without a superfluous word.

Brother Hua lit the charcoal pot and retreated as usual, "My mother is embarrassed to speak, so I will say one more thing: these drinks and dishes are enough for you to eat for a while, and when the wine and food are cold, they will be heated on the charcoal, and the rest of the things will be placed on the table, I will clean up tomorrow morning, and I beg you not to harass everyone again tonight." ”

"Go, sleep in peace, the backyard is a dead man, and you will not be called." Hu Guiyang said with a smile.

Brother Hua snorted and ran out of the house quickly.

Yuan Mao went to close the door, "Why are even your servants so special and interesting?" ”

"First, they are relatives who have come to help, not servants. Second, Second Uncle Sun knows me best, and he recommended me, so I just sit back and enjoy it. ”

"Haha, this mother and son can really only do things from you. Come, I'll toast you. ”

Neither of the two had any intention of fighting, so they drank slowly, with more jokes than dishes, and they drank quite comfortably.

"If Lao Dao knew that we didn't call him for drinking here, he would definitely be jealous." Yuan Maodao.

Hu Guiyang's eyes immediately appeared in front of Fan Dajian's complaining look, and he couldn't help laughing, "It's really possible, in order to prevent him from being unhappy, I'll teach you a trick." ”

"What's the move?" Yuan Mao knew that Hu Guiyang had many ghost ideas, but he was also very curious.

"A trick that can make a lot of money, with this trick, Lao Dao can make a fortune, and this trick is what you told him, he will naturally not be jealous of the two of us drinking."

"Say it quickly." Yuan Mao became more and more curious.

"Lao Dao tried to mediate and talk about the Wuque Hutong and the Spring Courtyard in the city, you know?"

"Well, it is said that he has found a way to contact the Liang Nei Shi in the palace, and he will be summoned after the Lantern Festival, and he will gather a large number of silver taels from various spring courtyards, ready to use it to buy Liang Nei Shi."

"If this trick doesn't work, Fan Laodao will not only make a bamboo basket empty, but also annoy the spring courtyard full of expectations."

"What do you know?"

"Hmm." Hu Guiyang did not elaborate.

"Then I have to remind Lao Dao as soon as possible and ask him to return the silver."

"Then you won't be able to get rich."

"What do you mean......"

"Let Lao Dao still send money to Liang Nei, but don't send too much, and then say that the matter will be done, and then collect money from each spring courtyard."

"This is a fraud money, once it is revealed, the old way can not afford it."

"It won't be exposed, the old way only needs to hold on until March and April, and at most until May, Wuque Hutong will return to normal." These things were all learned by Hu Guiyang from Eunuch Zeng.

"Back to normal?"

"Well, it's just to restore it to an ordinary spring courtyard alley, and there is no longer that kind of magic that makes guests nostalgic."

Yuan Mao pondered for a while, "The full pot of spring is about to run out?" He had heard of this pill from Ren Liu'er and knew that it was the source of the "magic" of Wuque Hutong.

Hu Guiyang nodded.

"Hey, your news is worth a thousand gold, why don't you tell Lao Dao yourself?"

"Lao Dao owes me too much, I'm afraid that he will feel that he can't pay it back no matter what, and he will simply not pay it back if he hates it."

"Hehe, your idea is really weird, since we are friends...... Yuan Mao suddenly couldn't continue, his face became a little embarrassed, and he took a sip of half-cold wine, "Du'er guesses that the full pot of spring is not only an aphrodisiac medicine, but also can be used to find hidden aliens." ”

"That's an interesting guess, what is she based on?"

"Zhu Jiutou got a sum of money from her, pretended to be Zhu Jiugongzi and went to Wuque Hutong, became irritable after drinking, stripped and ran around."

"I always heard that someone ran around in Wuque Hutong without clothes and out of the house, it turned out to be him."

"He was one of them, and he didn't run far before he was forcibly held down by a few guys. Zhu Jiutou fainted at that time, and when he woke up, he heard someone talking next to him, he didn't open his eyes, and overheard a few words: 'Is he?' ''No, not strong enough. ''It's not small, do you want to report to the palace?'' ''Wait and see how he changes.'' ’”

"That's all?"

"Well, Zhu Jiutou has been to Yunyang Mansion, and when the imperial court recruited troops to suppress bandits last year, he was selected."

"Even so, we may be able to guess that these words are related to strangers, how did Ren Liu'er guess it? She shouldn't know much about Inhumans, right? ”

"She received a stranger at Ren's house." Yuan Mao was a little embarrassed again, shook his head, and continued: "That stranger is hidden, only revealed his true identity to Du'er, he said that the imperial court wants to use the stranger to build an invincible army, and at the same time also destroy all the strangers who refuse to submit. ”

"There are four strangers in this courtyard who refuse to submit, and one of them has been living in Wuque Hutong and has not seen the court do anything."

"I can't explain these things you said, and Durian doesn't understand it, but she knows one thing, Zhu Jiutou has been targeted, and these people are starting to suspect Durian."

"What do you suspect her? She hadn't been to Yunyang again. ”

"The trouble is here, Durian goes to Yunyang." Yuan Mao let out a long sigh, he didn't expect that the trouble would be so big at first.

Hu Guiyang was puzzled and didn't know where to start.