"It's a pity that it's not in Yecheng, if you can dissect the corpse and see if there are any other scars on the corpse, you can further confirm the cause of this girl's death."

"Madame just said that it may not be, do you think that this murderer is not here for Leng Jiao?"

"I just think that the murderer may not know that the boss behind this Yuejiang Building is Leng Ye." Yan Suwen looked at the Yuejiang Tower in front of him, "The last time I came, Leng Ye said that as early as the beginning of the establishment of Yuejiang Tower, he intended to spread the news to the outside world, saying that this Yuejiang Tower was the eyes of the Nanshu Imperial Court. Such a secret, if it weren't for the people around Leng Ye, others would not know about it. Yan Su asked and looked at the girl: "Acquaintances commit crimes, but they are only familiar with the environment of this Yuejiang Building." If he knew that Leng Ye was the behind-the-scenes boss of this Yuejiang Building, he might not have the courage to do such a thing. ”

"For now, let's wait until I see Leng Jiao."

"I want to find Master Leng, but now that Yuejiang Tower has been seized, I don't know where he is."

"Why is my sister here, let the corpse be easy to find." The shirt was gently pulled, and when he turned around, it turned out to be the younger brother Lingshu he recognized. He was much taller than the last time I saw him.

"Corpse?"

"I told my sister to let my sister stand in place and wait for the corpse, but in the blink of an eye, my sister and my brother-in-law ran here to watch the excitement." Lingshu winked at Yan Suwen while tugging at her clothes and bringing her and Gu Changfeng out of the crowd of onlookers.

"Did Master Leng ask you to come to us?"

"Hmm." Lingshu responded lightly, and at the same time raised his hand and said, "Yan Lingshu has seen my sister and brother-in-law!" ”

"When you're away from home, you're your own brother, so you don't have to be polite." Gu Changfeng raised his hand: "Take us to see Leng Jiao." ”

Yan Lingshu nodded, and took Yan Suwen and Gu Changfeng through an alley to a house. If you stand on a high place, you will find that there is only one house between the house where Leng Jiao is located and the Yuejiang Building where the accident occurred.

Yan Lingshu walked to the house, held the copper ring, and lightly knocked three times.

The door opened from the inside, and standing inside was also their old acquaintance, Uncle Hong of the Wuyi Gang.

"Uncle Hong."

"The old beggar has seen Xiangye and thought about Madame."

"Uncle Hong doesn't have to be polite, what about Master Leng?"

"The helper knew that Xiangye and his wife had entered the city and had been waiting in the front hall. Minister, please, Mrs. please. ”

"Su Wen and Uncle Hong are not outsiders, and there are some things that they ask directly."

"Madame, excuse me."

"What happened to the female corpse in front of Yuejiang Tower?"

"It's not that the old beggar doesn't want to tell his wife, it's just that the matter is long and wide-ranging, and for a while, he can't say a word clearly. Madame don't have to worry, wait until you see our helper, and then tell Madame in detail. ”

"Is Master Leng okay?"

"Madame don't have to worry too much, the helper is fine. Yuejianglou is just an industry that we have purchased in Nanshu, and this is also the hidden pile eyeliner that is planted in Nanshu by the helper, don't say that he doesn't recognize the helper, even if he does, he won't think that our helper looks like this. ”

"Uncle Hong said that this is true, don't say that the people of Nanshu, that is, I, a Great Wei person, when I first met Leng Ye, it was difficult to connect him with this huge Wuyi Gang."

As they spoke, the four of them had already arrived in the antechamber. After a little greeting, it cut to the whole.

"The first person to die in Yuejiang Tower was not a person, but a cat." Uncle Hong beckoned and ordered someone to serve the tea: "In terms of time, it should be shortly after Mrs. left last time." ”

"A cat?"

"Yes, a cat. The nobles of Nanshu like to raise cats, and there are also cat lovers in this ordinary family, but there are no cats in our Yuejiang Building. Uncle Hong explained: "Cats, although they are clever and cute, they don't keep their homes very well, and when they encounter a little benefit, they immediately forget about their home." Because of this habit of cats, our helper doesn't like it very much, so all the rudders, open piles, and dark piles don't have cats. Although there are no domestic cats, there are also wild cats that often visit, and when they see each other in the past, they just let people drive them away. ”

Uncle Hong said a lot of things about cats in one breath, Yan Suwen and Gu Changfeng listened, but they didn't interrupt.

"Although Yuejianglou belongs to our Wuyi Gang, in order not to attract attention, even if the gang leader comes to deal with things, most of them live in this courtyard. In the early morning of that day, before dawn, the shopkeeper of Yuejiang Tower hurriedly came to look for me, saying that something unusual had happened in Yuejiang Tower. It was inconvenient for the helper to show up, so I brought two people over. As soon as I entered the building, I smelled a smell of blood.

On the counter of Yuejiang Building, there is a yellow and white cat. The cat had been disemboweled, and the cat was surrounded by 'buzzing' flies. 360 Literature Network

I asked the shopkeeper of the Jiang Building, what is the matter with this cat? The shopkeeper said he didn't know, and he hadn't been there when he went to bed last night. When I got up early, I heard movement downstairs and thought it was a thief who came to smooth things. When I got dressed and went downstairs to check, I found the dead cat. The cat was clean, as if someone had deliberately left it here.

Yuejianglou's business has always been good, and there are some dignitaries and dignitaries who come and go, and it is inevitable that they will be jealous and jealous of their peers, but such a bad thing is the first time I have encountered it in many years. ”

"What's wrong with that cat?"

"Yes!" Uncle Hong nodded and said, "At the beginning, I also thought that someone had done a prank, deliberately disgusting our Yuejiang Tower." But when the young man was asked to clean up the cat's corpse, the young man suddenly screamed, saying that there was something hidden in the cat's belly. When I looked over, it was a finger, a man's finger. ”

Uncle Hong stretched out one of his fingers: "It's not just a finger, but there is also a ring on this finger." The ring is made of pure gold, glossy, without any patterns, which is a relatively common thing in Nanshu City. ”

"Is the ring still there?" Yan Su asked.

Uncle Hong nodded and asked his subordinates to take the ring.

The ring was placed on the red cloth, the red cloth was placed on the tray, and the next person brought it over and rested it in front of Yan Suwen.

The ring had not been cleaned, and there were some stains on it that had been left on for a while, so the stains had dried up and were stuck to the ring.

"Originally, I was going to let my subordinates clean it, but the helper didn't let me, saying that Mrs. would come to Nanshu again sooner or later, and it might be useful to keep this thing."

"It's a men's ring, just like Uncle Hong said, the ring is glossy, and there is nothing else except the dirt attached to the cat's corpse." Yan Suwen only glanced at it, but did not pick up the ring: "As Uncle Hong said, this ring is very ordinary, just walking from the city gate to Yuejiang Tower, you can see four or five hands wearing it." The people of Nanshu not only love cats, but also love to wear these gold and silver utensils. On the contrary, the men of the Great Wei Dynasty love to wear jade, and they are very disgusted with such mundane things as gold and silver. It can be inferred from this that the severed finger of this cat corpse must be from Nanshu. ”

"It's not from Nanshu."

"What?"

"It's nothing, I'll talk to you later about this severed finger."

"Okay." Yan Suwen waved his hand, asked his subordinates to take out the ring, and then quietly listened to Uncle Hong talk about the following things.

"Although the severed finger was found, it didn't make a noise, but only let the cat corpse be taken and buried, and secretly investigated who sent the cat to Yuejiang Building."

"It doesn't have to be delivered."

"What Madame said is that our helper has also thought of this. Yuejiang Lou is the same as the house here, the door is opened from the inside, after the point of welcoming guests, it will close the door to thank guests, outsiders want to be unaware, ghosts unconsciously enter the building, unless it is a first-class master. Either an external enemy or an internal thief. In those days, we were clearly investigating foreign enemies, but in fact we were investigating internal ghosts. ”

"Did you find it?"

"Even if it's found, it's not found."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Because when that person was found, he was already dead." Uncle Hong sighed: "This person's name is Wei Mao, and he is also a member of my Wuyi Gang. There is a rule in the gang that this hidden stake set up in other countries does not need adult men except for those in charge. As for the reason, Madame is smart, and she should be able to guess some. ”

"Adult men have a lively mind, and they can be loyal to the Crows, but they can also betray the Crows because of something outside their bodies. Another point is that adults are not as adaptable as children, and the slightest carelessness may be discovered. Children, because of their age, are more likely to blend in with the unfamiliar environment, adapt to changes in the environment, and at the same time make the enemy relax their vigilance. ”

"Yes, there are these considerations. When this Wei Mao came here with the steward of Yuejiang Tower, he was not yet eleven years old. Over the years, he has always been down-to-earth and diligent, and no one thought that he would be such an honest person as he could do such a thing. ”

"Wei Mao is dissatisfied with the steward of Yuejiang Tower?"

"Nope." Uncle Hong shook his head: "At least not on the surface." Our Wuyi Gang, to put it bluntly, is a gang of beggars, and those who can get to this gang are either unable to survive, or they have lost their families and are helpless. This Wei Mao, who lost his father at the age of three and his mother at the age of five, was picked up from the street by the current steward of Yuejiang Tower. I remember very well that when this Wei spear was brought back, he was dying, and the steward rescued him with a sip of water and medicine. Even if you are dissatisfied, you will not do such a thing in private. ”

"Uncle Hong, there seems to be a contradiction in what you said."

"There is a contradiction, and it is because of the contradiction that we can't figure it out." Uncle Hong sighed: "This Wei Mao is a kind-hearted person, there are often wild cats in Yuejiang Tower, and other guys just use sticks to blast wild cats out." Wei Mao is different, he will take some fish bones and lure those wild cats out. A fellow once saw with his own eyes that this Wei Mao was talking to those wild cats, and his words were full of tenderness. He told the wild cats that he would always bring some food with them, and told them to be obedient and not to go into the building casually. It's strange to say that those wild cats that were fed by Wei Mao really rarely appeared in the building. ”

"Animals are spiritual, too."

The reason why Wei Mao was found was also because a guy in the store recognized that the cat that died on the counter was one of the wild cats he usually fed. The cat's leg had been injured, and Wei Mao took medicine to treat it, but because the wound was too deep, it left a scar, and its movement was not as dexterous as before. Because of this, Wei Mao also cried at the door of Yuejiang Building, and was made fun of by other guys in the store. ”

"The cat has been found, can you find out whose severed finger is in the cat's belly?"