Song Ruilong took the box that had just been opened in his hand and said: "This Qionghua Jade Fat Powder is sold by the Rouge Huoyun Fang in the capital, if you want to know what spices are mixed in this half box of Qionghua Jade Fat Powder, I think you can only know when you go to the Rouge Huoyun Fang in the capital." It's just that, in this way, it will take seven or eight days on this road, which is quite disadvantageous to solving the case. ”

Zhang Meixian smiled and said, "Don't you just want to prove what spices are mixed in this Qionghua jade powder?" It's easy. ”

Song Ruilong looked at Zhang Meixian with a surprised look and said, "Didn't you say that you have to find this perfumer who makes spices to know the answer?" ”

Zhang Meixian said: "That's right. ”

Song Ruilong stared at the big eyes and said, "But that perfumer is in the capital." ”

"That's right."

Song Ruilong said: "Then since this perfumer is in the capital, do we want to ride there to verify it?" ”

Zhang Meixian said: "Of course! ”

Song Ruilong said: "It will take seven or eight days to come and go, mother, how can you say that it is simple?" ”

Zhang Meixian smiled mysteriously: "If you want to go to the capital to verify, it will naturally take seven or eight days, but if you go to the fat powder fragrance king in Ping'an County, it won't take half a day." ”

Su Xianrong said with some excitement: "He Yuxiang, the king of fat powder fragrance, not only is she beautiful, but even her living environment is like a fairyland, surrounded by mountains, flowers bloom in all seasons, bees and butterflies are flocks, she often prepares rouge gouache for some women." I know all the spices well, and if I ask her to identify the spices in this box of fat powder, I don't think it's too difficult, how can I forget her? ”

Song Ruilong said excitedly: "Without further ado, Rongrong, we will go to He Yuxiang immediately." ”

"Hmm!" Su Xianrong nodded.

Song Ruilong handed over the two boxes of Qionghua jade fat powder to Su Xianrong, and just walked out of the door, only to hear someone beating the drum outside the door.

The matter was urgent, and Song Ruilong and Su Xianrong soon came to the court.

The drumming was a man in his thirties, his back was a little hunched, his eyes were not big, and he was wearing a coarse cloth clothes, after seeing Song Ruilong, he immediately knelt in front of Song Ruilong and said, "My lord, it's not good, the villain found a person in a dry well in my family's field." The villain screamed a few times, but the man didn't answer, and I think he must be dead. ”

Song Ruilong said: "Have you seen that person's face clearly?" ”

The hunchbacked man shook his head and said, "No." Because the person seems to be head down and feet up, the villain can't see the person's face. However, looking at his clothes, he looks like an errand boy in those big inns in the county. ”

Song Ruilong looked at Su Xianrong and said, "Rongrong, this will trouble you for the perfumer king He Yuxiang to identify these two boxes of spices, I have to go to the murder scene to check it out now." ”

Su Xianrong said: "Brother Song, don't worry, I promise to complete the task." ”

Song Ruilong seemed to feel some crisis, and said: "Rongrong, I always feel that this matter is not so simple, you have to be careful on the road." ”

Su Xianrong said with a smile: "Brother Song, look at what you said, how can it be like parting with life and death?" I didn't go out to handle the case alone, not once or twice. Feel relieved! Besides, this time I didn't go to arrest the criminal, but just asked He Yuxiang to identify the ingredients of the spices. ”

Song Ruilong said: "It's me who is a little overhearted. Good! Go and get back quickly, maybe as soon as you come back, this case will be closed. ”

After Su Xianrong left, Song Ruilong took two officials and ropes and followed the people to the place where the incident occurred.

On the way, Song Ruilong learned that the hunchback who reported the case was called Mao Tieshi, a farmer in Maojiazhuang, Ping'an County, this afternoon, he went to the field to remove grass, but when he got to the ground, he smelled a very bad smell, after he carefully checked, finally found a dead man in the dry well at the head of the field, he gasped for breath, ran to the county government to report the case.

There is really a dragon inn in Xiangfu County.

After Wei Bixi and his master Liu Tianxiong crossed Cuihua Mountain, they met a person who went to Xiangfu County to do business, took advantage of a carriage, squinted on the car for a while, and arrived in Xiangfu County.

When he saw the name Youlong Inn, Wei Bixiao really wanted to jump.

Wei Bixiao said excitedly to Liu Tianxiong: "Master, it seems that Zhao Ping is not lying, there is really a Dragon Inn here." ”

Liu Tianxiong had a sad look on his face and said, "What is there to be happy about?" We arrived in Xiangfu County and saw the Youlong Inn, which shows that Zhao Ping is not lying, if he really stays in this Youlong Inn for one night, then he will not have time to kill Ning Tianxiang, and the clues of our case will be broken again. ”

Wei Bixiao said: "If it's broken, it's broken." We ran a little more, but at least we were better than wronging someone. ”

Liu Tianxiong and Wei Bixiao ordered a few dishes in the inn and asked for some rice, and after eating, Liu Tianxiong called the shopkeeper to his side, took out ten cents from his arms and handed it to the shopkeeper, and said, "Little brother, I want to ask, did there be a guest named Zhao Ping in your store who stayed in your inn the night before?" ”

The shopkeeper put the ten cents in his hand, threw it up and down, and said, "Guest officer, I have seen the person you said." He was a forty-five or sixteen-year-old man, with strong arms, more than eight feet tall, and he was very generous in his hand. ”

According to the judgment of the shopkeeper, Liu Tianxiong felt that the person in the shopkeeper's mouth was Zhao Ping, and said, "Didn't that person go out all night in this inn?" ”

The shopkeeper nodded and said, "This is for sure, because in the middle of the night, he also asked the little one for a snack and a pot of wine, saying that he was too hungry at night." I didn't get a good night's sleep that night, and if it weren't for the ten taels of silver he gave me, who the would have served him? ”

Wei Bixiao stood up and said, "Can you take us to Zhao Ping's room to have a look?" ”

The shopkeeper put the white towel behind him and said, "Of course you can." Since Zhao Ping left in the morning, his room has not been booked by any guests, so the room has been empty. ”

Wei Bixiao and Liu Tianxiong followed the shopkeeper up to a very ordinary room on the second floor.

Wei Bixi found that the sheets and bedding in the room were gone, and the floor was very clean, so she opened the window again and found that there was a big willow tree outside the window, which could block the sun.

Wei Bixiao slowly closed the window again, patted the dust on his hands, and said, "How long has this window not been opened?" ”

The shopkeeper himself looked at the window and said, "Oh, I don't know much about this." Because the back window of this room is close to the big willow tree, it is cool, but there are too many mosquitoes, so many guests are reluctant to open the window. What's wrong? Too much dust, right? Wait a while, when you go downstairs, I'll get you a basin of water, and you can wash it well. ”