The night of Xisu River is very lively, there are about more than 50 painting boats on the river, all the way down, there is a flat boat moored at the ferry, this is specially to send guests on the painting boat, go to a trip for ten yuan.

Ten pennies can't last about ten meters, so this is definitely a gold hole.

The larger painting boat here is the same as the Qinlou Chu Pavilion like the tip drunk, the guests can come here to buy drunk, there are girls playing the piano, poetry and painting, warm up, say some earthy love words, sigh life, show off the style, beautiful face, gentle township.

And the small painting boats, such as what Chun Niang Mei Niang, are said to be painting boats, but in fact they are well-decorated boats, only one or two girls are on top, and they generally greet not the rich man, but most of the guests are literati and ink writers, sour and rotten talents.

The fee is relatively cheap, however, there can be further action, of course, further is to be given silver.

Chun Niang died, and her mother found a girl to replace Chun Niang, named Liu Er.

King Qi found this Liu'er, and his mother was also on the painting boat, because the lights were dim, and King Qi did not wear the official mansion, after returning to the house, he changed into a brocade coat and came over, he was very rich and handsome, and his mother didn't recognize it.

Seeing King Qi so rich, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly greeted him and called Liu Er to come out to greet the guests.

King Qi looked at that Liu Er was only sixteen or seventeen, but he didn't have any wind and dust, wearing a satin jacket and an apricot-colored cloak, full of pearls, but it didn't look like an expensive product.

looks good, the eyes under the willow eyebrows are slightly raised, and the amorous ones come forward to pinch their fingers and smile, showing their teeth slightly, "The slave Liu Er has seen the son." ”

King Qi looked at her and said, "Girl doesn't have to be polite, sit down!" ”

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his mother squeezing her eyes at Liu'er, as if she wanted her to hold the son tightly.

The painting boat was in the river, and the water was pushing, and there would be a slight shaking, and Liu Er seemed to be unstable on her feet, and she screamed softly and fell to the side of King Qi.

She said coquettishly: "Hey, the slave family can't stand on their feet for a while, and they offended Gongzi, don't blame Gongzi." ”

When she said that the son was not strange, her lips were in the ears of King Qi, exhaling like an orchid, her bright eyes slowly unfolded, and the corners of her eyes were a little lazy, and she was extremely charming.

King Qi helped her, and said with clear eyes: "Girl, sit down." ”

Mama naturally withdrew at this time, and a moment later, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman came in to serve tea.

She dressed relatively plainly and simply, came in steadily, put the tea, melon and fruit snacks on the table, and asked King Qi softly, "Childe, what kind of wine do you drink?" ”

"Let's have a pot of osmanthus Chen." King Qi didn't want to drink too strong wine, so he took out a piece of silver from his sleeve pocket and put it on the maid's tea tray and said.

This ingot of silver weighed ten taels, and Liu Er and the maid were stunned at the same time when they saw it, and the maid quickly hid it in her sleeve pocket, and said with a smile: "Okay, son, you wait." ”

King Qi had never been to these places, and he didn't know the price, so he just thought that he would probably need so much to drink wine once he came to drink.

How did he know that it was only two taels of silver for a night to charter this painting boat, and it also included the following in it.

After the maid left, King Qi stood up, looked at the small painting boat, and asked Liu'er, "Ben...... Can I look around? It's my first time here, and I'm curious. ”

Liu Er estimated that he should be the son of a rich family, and he came here to see it for a long time, so he said: "Childe can look at it casually." ”

This place for entertaining guests is not large, and it can be seen at a glance, with a table, a few chairs, and an old carved wooden cabinet on the side, which is ajar, and in which some fat powder is placed.

The planks of the ship were wood-colored, with varnish, and many places were rubbed white, and King Qi looked at the floor carefully, and finally found a trace of blood under the chair facing the direction of the curtain.

He squatted down and reached out to touch it, it was already dry, so he took the tea on the table and poured it over, letting the blood stains melt away and smell it on his hands, leaving the smell of blood.

It seems that the murderer that day was sitting in the direction of the curtain, which was not completely obscured, so he could always be vigilant to see the situation outside when he sat in this direction.

Seeing him looking around with a suspicious look, Liu Er felt a little strange and asked, "Childe, what are you looking for?" ”

King Qi had already thought of an excuse and said: "That's the case, a friend of mine came here a few days ago and accidentally left something behind, and tonight he knew that I was coming, so he asked me to help him find it." ”

It just so happened that the maid came in with wine, and when she heard this, she hurriedly said: "You can be regarded as looking for it, but you are talking about the eighth master of the first month?" ”

King Qi slowly straightened up and looked at the maid, "It's the eighth day of the first month, that night, you are here?" ”

The maid put down the wine and said with a smile: "That's right, that day Chunniang's maid was sick, it was the slave family who served here, and when the master came, he didn't arrive at the time, I thought he was going to drink for a long time, but when the slave family came out with the wine, the others were gone, and the Chunniang girl said that he suddenly had something important, and left with a tael of silver, but he didn't know that he had a brand." ”

"Yes, it's a brand!" King Qi was overjoyed in his heart, it was really Skynet that was restored and not leaked, the gangster actually left a brand, and he didn't expect Chunniang's maid to be sick that night and be served by a different person.

The maid took out the brand from the drawer, and when King Qi saw this brand, he sighed in his heart, and it was suddenly a little difficult to breathe.

This brand, not gold or jade, is just an ordinary black brand, which usually can't get into the eyes of anyone who is greedy.

Therefore, the maid and the mother of the painting boat saw this brand, and they didn't have the heart to keep it for themselves, so it was really not worth a few dollars.

But if they knew what this sign represented, they were afraid that they would not think so.

The Liu'er girl came over curiously to take a look at it and said, "Is this brand very important?" There's nothing on it. ”

King Qi held this cold brand in his hand, there is nothing on it, but it is a symbol of status, this material is not ordinary, but it is cast of dark iron, since the beginning of the dynasty, this kind of dark iron brand has only been given five, each of which has a number, engraved on the edge, he touched it with his fingertips, and touched a three-word.

"Is there any pen and ink?" King Qi took a deep breath and asked Miss Liu'er with a solemn expression.

Miss Liu'er hurriedly asked the maid to prepare pen and ink, although she was young, but she was also used to seeing the world, a prince like him could see the dignity at a glance, and she deliberately dumped him and was unmoved, so it can be seen that she did not come for fun.

No matter what, as long as she is given enough money, she can do whatever she is told.

After the four treasures of the study came up, King Qi immediately drew a portrait with a pen, and then asked the maid, "Is this the guest you saw that night?" ”

The maid looked at it carefully, "Yes, but I'm not sure if it's not, because when he came that night, he was dressed relatively thinly, and his hair was also blown messily by the wind, and the hair on the left side was hanging down, covering the small half of his face, and the slave family couldn't see it very clearly." ”