It was still morning, and the vegetable market was very lively.

"You're busy, you don't have to call me." Song Ning went all the way and greeted everyone.

The vegetable seller should be, and asked Song Ning again: "My lord, have you found it?" ”

"No, how can it be so fast, I'm not an immortal." Song Ning went to Uncle Zhou's meat stall, Uncle Zhou was chopping meat, and when he saw Song Ning coming and shouted, "My lord, are you here to chat?" ”

"me, bring the stools to the adults and the two headcatchers."

Song Ning waved his hand: "No, I'll take a look around, you guys do things." ”

The meat scholar smiled at her at the meat stall next door, and Song Ning asked, "What are you reading?" ”

"Left pass." The meat scholar said with a smile, "The comprehension ability is limited, so it's just to pass the time." ”

Song Ning said with a smile: "Liking to read is already an ability that is different from ordinary people, and you should be proud." ”

The meat scholar smiled shyly.

"Your Excellency!" Next door, Wang Mazi stood in front of her stall, she was wearing a gray gown, with a thick waist, a big nose, a big mouth, and spots on both sides of her cheeks.

Just looking at the appearance, it is impossible to tell whether she is a man or a woman at all, and there is indeed no place that is considered beautiful in a man's aesthetics.

But as soon as she opened her mouth, Song Ning felt that she was very bold.

"Aunt Wang." Song Ning bowed, Wang Mazi saluted, and said, "I slept like a pig when the adults came yesterday, and I didn't wake up until you left, and I went home at night and regretted dying." ”

"My dead cow didn't call me."

Wang Mazi said, carrying a pork leg and handing it to Song Ning: "My lord, you take it home to eat, you are too thin to make up for it." ”

"No, no, I'm going to take your pork leg and it will affect my reputation." Song Ning is serious and authentic.

Wang Mazi was stunned for a moment, and laughed: "My lord, you are right, the most important thing to be an official is reputation, then, that is not for you." ”

"That's right! Are you alone today? The big cow didn't come? ”

Wang Mazi replied: "Da Niu and his father went to the mountains to chop wood. He added, "My lord, Zhang Wu sent me a pig on the day he died, and I have always been unbearable in my heart for this matter, and I have sent money to his family one after another in the past few months, and I always feel that it has something to do with me." ”

"If you hadn't asked him to send the pigs...... Alas! ”

Wang Mazi sighed, and saw Wang Daniu and his father walking here with a load of firewood.

Wang Da Niu was very similar to his father, but his father was thinner than Wang Da Niu, with a height of five feet and four inches, and his weight was no more than 100 catties.

The father and son picked up the firewood, and Wang Mazi suddenly roared angrily: "What are you doing here, take it home!" ”

"You, don't be angry, the main reason is that you can't cope with it here alone, wait, we'll go back at noon." Wang Da Niu's father.

"What can you do but make trouble?" Wang Mazi scolded, "Go home and cook." ”

Everyone looked at their husband and wife, Wang Daniu's father nodded at everyone, and walked out of the crowd with firewood.

Wang Da Niu didn't move, smiled shyly at Song Ning, and shrank into the straw laid under the stall and closed his eyes.

The foot of the man who had come to buy groceries stopped in front of him, and he rolled over with his back to the outside.

"Let me laugh, my man, I don't look like a man, and he's very lazy. If you don't care, he hides outside all day and night, and when he sees it, he will come to the fire. Wang Mazi said, "I'm grabbed inside and out, I'm tired and tired for my family, and their father and son are angry with me." ”

"I really owe it in this life."

Song Ning said with a smile: "Mutual tolerance and support are husband and wife, and people who want to live a lifetime should think more about good places." ”

The meat scholar also said on the side: "That is, what you listen to the adults makes sense." Calling and drinking all day long is not only useless, but also counterproductive. ”

"Yes, yes, I listen to adults, and I won't scold in the future."

The meat scholar was about to speak, when a woman who came to buy vegetables and carried a vegetable basket took a sip: "You don't scold? Your mouth is almost the same unless it's sewn up. ”

Wang Mazi smiled.

"If you want me to say, it's casual if your man is half dead, you can raise your son well, why is this the same as his father? It's too wretched. ”

Under the meat stall, Wang Daniu turned over and looked at the woman who was talking, muttered a word of unhappiness, and found that Song Ning was also looking at him, and suddenly turned his face red and turned his back.

Wang Mazi was talking to the woman, and Qiu came back one after another, but Song Ning didn't pay attention to it.

"How?" Song Ning asked him, and Qiu replied one after another: "He Si has a pot of tea every morning, then buys vegetables and goes home, and then goes to the furniture shop." ”

"Su Lu got up early in the morning, rushed to the earliest trip to buy fresh vegetables and bought breakfast by the way, and then went out for a walk and then went home to make lunch, and woke up in the afternoon to be busy with work, and chatted in the streets and alleys without work."

Song Ning raised his eyebrows and looked at Qiu Qian.

Qiu nodded one after another: "Yes, the two people who bought vegetables came to this vegetable market." ”

"Buying groceries at the market?" Qiao Si and Douzi glanced at each other, Qiao Si said, "My lord, we didn't inquire about the daily whereabouts of the two victims just now, do you want to ask again?" ”

Song Ning nodded.

Qiao Si and Douzi hurried away.

As soon as they left, Lu Miaomiao came back, and shouted from afar: "My lord, my lord, I asked." Shi Zhaowei gets up in the morning to study, eats breakfast an hour later, and goes to class after breakfast, when he is not in class, he will take care of the children at home or help buy groceries. ”

Song Ning was pleasantly surprised that Lu Miaomiao asked so much information: "That's what to say, in which vegetable market?" ”

"That's it, that's it, this vegetable market is the biggest."

Song Ning's surprise at this result was far less than the surprise that Lu Miaomiao brought her, she patted Lu Miaomiao's shoulder: "My Miaomiao is so powerful now." ”

"Really, am I amazing?"

Song Ning nodded: "You can think of everything you should think of, so it's very powerful." ”

Lu Miaomiao jumped and was very happy: "Then I'll buy two braised pig's feet to eat and celebrate my cleverness." ”

As he spoke, he jumped and went.

Song Ning smiled helplessly.

"My lord, what now? Check this market? Qiu said one after another, looking at the black pressure stalls in the West Lane vegetable market, and the uncle who came to walk every day, people came and went mixed and chaotic.

It's not easy to check such a vegetable market.

"Qiu Zhu, if the murderer is someone here, what do you think his motive is?"

Qiu thought for a moment and shook his head.

It is possible to have a vendetta with a person, a love killing, or even for money, but with so many people, he can't think of it.

"Let's continue the investigation." Song Ning and Qiu said one after another, "When Qiao Si comes back, we will list the names of all the victims, and everyone in the vegetable market will ask them." ”

Autumn should be.

After half an hour, Qiao Si came back and said to Song Ning: "...... My lord, the beaten woman came here to buy groceries, she came this morning, but the boy didn't buy groceries, he never even came here. ”

Douzi asked thoughtfully, "My lord, will this young man be an exception?" ”

If the juvenile is an exception, then the remaining five victims are all connected to the West Lane vegetable market.

"Let's investigate." Song Ning said.

All afternoon, they spent the afternoon talking and questioning everyone who set up a stall here, even their families.

Towards the end of the day, the vegetable vendors began to get busy again, and they returned to the yamen after finishing their work.

Song Yuanshi didn't go home either, waiting for them in the yamen, Lu Miaomiao put away the dumplings and baked cake buns he bought, and several people gathered around the table to discuss the harvest in the afternoon.

Douzi had never seen such a way, and listened curiously while eating steamed buns.

“…… So, the connection between these deceased people has been found? Song Yuanshi asked.

Everyone nodded, but Qiao Si sighed: "But after checking this afternoon, I basically didn't know five people, such as Shi Zhaowei, who rarely went to the vegetable market, even if he talked about his appearance, no one remembered." ”

"So, is there another possibility?" Song Yuanshi asked Song Ning, "Assuming that the murderer is from the vegetable market, will he have other ways to know the victim?" ”

Song Ning was also thinking about this matter in the afternoon, Shi Zhaowei and another injured teenager are people who rarely go to the vegetable market or even don't go to the vegetable market, if they are indeed the same murderer, then they and the murderer can only know each other in another place.

Where will it be? Song Ning asked Qiao Si: "The boy is only seventeen years old, do you usually study?" ”

"Read! But the kind of fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, his family's family background is not bad. ”

The teenager reads, and Shi Zhaowei also reads.

"Reading?" Qiu said in surprise, "Could it be...... Meat Scholar? ”

I love to read in the vegetable market, and I meet both conditions.

Song Ning flipped through the summary transcript he made in the afternoon, flipped to the column of the meat scholar, and said: "He knows Shi Zhaowei, because he used to be half a classmate." He didn't know the other boy because of the age difference. ”

"So, check?" Douzi said, "Yes, there is such a big suspicion, should we call him back and ask?" ”

Song Ning nodded: "Seeing that he is calm, he shouldn't run away, let's observe for another day." ”

"If it's this meat scholar, then his disembowelment murder weapon is easy to get." Song Yuan Shi said.

Selling pork is the same as killing pigs, and knives of all sizes are readily available.

"Eat first, go home first after eating, and rest well, Qiao Si and Qiu will go to the vegetable market early tomorrow morning to stare at him and see if there is anything abnormal about him."

Two people answered.

"Let's go home, go to bed."

Everyone cleaned up the public house, opened the door and came out, and saw that when they came yesterday, the two people who looked very memorable, and Pan Dexiang, who was talking to them with a pleasant face.

Pan Dexiang is Tang Taiwen's staff, and he is more popular than Shaoqing Zuoyao in Dali Temple in terms of personal feelings.

Seeing Song Ning come out, Pan Dexiang nodded slightly, brushed his sleeves and left.

The other two catchers also ran away.

Douzi whispered to everyone: "That Mr. Pan, you will definitely be common in the future." Those two are fast... The white and fat one is Lou Yang, and the thin one is Ding Bufan, my lord, didn't they come to greet you? ”

Several yamen have caught fast, and everyone occasionally intersects, so they know each other.

"It's true. I look at Dali Temple and there is no other catch. Song Ning said, "Is it useful to take Yu Hang to Master Ma?" ”

She really didn't verify this, first, she didn't have time, but she wasn't interested, anyway, no matter how many people there were, it wouldn't be her person.

"No, my lord, there are two heads here and twelve people catching fast, the two temples are one and a half, and the head catcher of the original temple Zhengguo is Tang Xingye, and his subordinates are not only Lou Yang and them, but there are also four people, and they have not come to report to you, my lord?"

Song Ning smiled and said, "It seems that they are all empathetic cuties, and they want to save money for adults." ”

Douzi was stunned for a moment, Song Ning waved his hand indifferently, and said, "Go back and rest, finish this case first, and these people will talk about it later." ”

Song Ning did not go home and decided to visit the Qi Palace.

In addition to her, Song Yuanshi, Lu Miaomiao and Qiao Si were all there.

When the chamberlain returned the news, Zhao Yi was preparing for dinner, and he didn't pay attention to inviting them in.

When Song Ning entered, he saw a chubby white man wearing a royal blue brocade gown sitting in the flower hall, with two dimples at the corners of his mouth, which were larger than Zhao Yi's, but his eyebrows and eyes were slightly similar.

Needless to introduce, Song Ning also guessed that this is Zhao Xi, the prince of Ning, who has been rumored for a long time, but has never seen Zhao Xi, the prince of Ning, who is obsessed with garden design.

Zhao Xi also looked at her, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Yuntai, this is Xiao Song?" ”

"Hmm." Zhao Yi bowed.

Zhao Xi clasped his fists at Song Ning and saluted, "Little Song is good!" ”

Song Ning: "? ”

She looked at Zhao Yi, not knowing whether she should accept this gift with pride, or kneel down to return the salute.

She rejected the latter.

"Come in and talk." Zhao Yi didn't give her a choice, interrupted Zhao Xi's words, and introduced Song Yuanshi, Lu Miaomiao, and Qiao Si.

Song Yuanshi looked at Zhao Xi and paused.

Zhao Xi also looked at him and tilted his head and asked, "You are Song Yuanshi, why do I think that I have seen you before?" ”

"The grass people's appearance is unusual, probably somewhere like the person you have seen before."

Zhao Xi frowned and said, "Really?" He didn't give up and asked Zhao Yi, "Don't you think he looks like someone?" ”

"Not like that!" Zhao Yi asked him to sit, "It's useless to say too much, he doesn't have a garden for you to design." ”

Song and Yuan Dynasty should hold their fists.

"That's a pity." Zhao Xi sighed and stopped continuing the topic just now.

Song Yuanshi sat quietly on the side.

(End of chapter)