Before Lei Song and Lu Qingqing came back, Song Ning went to Kapok Hutong with Tang Xingye and Qiao Si.

Halfway through, I turned around and went to Lu Fu. Lu Xiaoren said that he got back the scholar of Lu Zhi's youth.

Mrs. Lu asked the scholar to follow Song Ning.

The scholar is twenty-eight years old, not tall, thin, and now has a grocery store in his hometown, and he is lively and clear-headed.

“…… The villain is one year younger than the eldest son, and has been following the young master since he entered the house at the age of seven, and later the eldest son got married, and the villain happened to have an accident at home, and the eldest prince was kind-hearted, so he returned the deed of sale to the villain and gave the villain fifty taels of silver. ”

"The villain relies on this money to have a good life today, marrying a wife and having children."

Song Ning bowed his head and encouraged him to continue.

"At that time, when I went to the school, the eldest prince liked to take two paths the most. One is to walk from Kapok Hutong, because there is a theater troupe living behind it, and in the morning, there are many children who hang their voices or something, which is particularly nice and interesting. ”

"The other road is the big road, the big road is close but you can often meet classmates, the eldest son doesn't like it very much, saying that the twitter is very noisy, or I like to walk alone."

Song Ning asked, "Drama troupe?" ”

"Yes. The troupe is at the mouth of the Cricket Hutong in the back, a big yard, they will sing in the Douchun Teahouse at night, and they will open the gong as soon as it gets dark, and sing until the curfew, and we have also listened to it, it is very good. ”

Tang Xingye also knew: "That is the Tong family class, and I have been away from the capital for some years. He recalled, the scholar said, "Before the eldest prince got married, these people left, and I went to buy things at that time and saw them move." ”

"Almost, I don't remember the exact time." Tang Xingye Road.

The group went to the mouth of the alley, and walked along the old Ge alley, and there was a dead end to the right of the head, and there was a cricket alley to the right, and the scholar pointed to the yard with the eaves in front of him: "On that yard, the villain remembers it clearly, every morning there are children kicking their legs here, and there are people who can't stand crying and squatting in the corner crying." ”

From the entrance to the wall, Kapok is seventeen steps from Tang Xingye and five steps wide.

There are people on both walls.

"Your Excellency." Lei Song and Lu Qingqing arrived, "The villain went to the Yamen, and they said you came here." ”

"The clothes of the deceased have been handed over to the wind."

Song Ning beckoned at him: "It's just right to come, what was the deceased like at that time?" ”

"Lying on his stomach with his head facing the alley and his face facing the ground. In the middle. Rayson pointed to a location.

Song Ning stood at the mouth of the alley, looked up at the surroundings, and asked the scholar: "Does your eldest son climb the wall?" ”

"No, the eldest prince has always been Sven."

Song Ning's gaze fell on Lei Song.

After walking a few more steps, he came to the corner of the courtyard where the troupe lived and showed his head and peeked over there.

I can see it.

Lu Zhi was out of school at the time, he happened to pass by here, and after stepping out, he saw the situation in Mumian Hutong, and then he stepped back, peeked at the other party, and there was the sentence described in his booklet.

"Tang Xingye, Lei Song, you have your back to the inside, I'll come over and you can see if you can find it."

The two turned their backs, Song Ning walked over, and both turned back.

"My lord, people who practice martial arts have good hearing, and when your steps come, your subordinates can notice them." Tang Xingye Road.

Song Ning leaned against the wall again and peeked with one eye.

The two of them still have feelings, maybe because they knew in advance.

But she was actually biased, and the murderer also found Lu Zhi at that time.

The murderer found him, and then what?

Did they meet here? Became friends?

"It's entirely possible!" Song Ning felt that her idea could stand, and it was precisely because she knew the person she had been paying attention to that Lu Zhi, who was discussing, kept the secret regardless of the murder.

Who is that man?

"Your Excellency?"

Song Ning bowed his head and said, "Let's take a walk." ”

She was interested in the troupe, because she had handled the case of the troupe, so she wondered if the deceased could be a member of the troupe.

"My lord, when I walked here, my subordinates thought of something, at that time, this courtyard was inhabited by the Tong Family Gang. Because the deceased was too beautiful, we wondered if it was from the theater troupe, so we specially invited them to ask, and they said no. ”

"My subordinates have also verified, and it is indeed not." Lei Song said, "But after about half a month, two apprentices in their troupe drowned. ”

"Drowning?" Song Ning asked him, "In the well?" ”

"Yes. The well next to it was sealed. Lei Song led them into the Worm Alley, there was a well at the bottom of the alley, and now there was a wooden plank on it, and stones were pressed on it, "Two children, a nine-year-old brother and a seven-year-old brother. ”

"The head of the class said that the two children fell into a fight, and he also fished people, and other children saw it at that time, so there was no in-depth investigation into this matter."

Lu Qingqing scratched his head and said, "Could it be that these two children actually saw the murder scene and were killed by the murderer?" ”

"Take it as it is." Song Ning said, "When there are no clues, anything you catch can be taken seriously." ”

Something is better than nothing, even if it turns out to be wrong!

The mouth of the well is not big, and it is a bit unreasonable to drop two children into it.

Everyone stayed by the well for a moment, and then was led by the scholar to the Wenchu Academy, turned back, and came out along the Laoge Hutong, Song Ning asked casually: "Why is it called Laoge Hutong?" Who is Lao Ge? ”

"Actually, it used to be Gelao Hutong." Tang Xingye coughed and said in a low voice, "The former Kang Mansion is here." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to a courtyard behind him.

"The yard is now divided into three households and sold separately. Because of Kang Ge Lao, this place is called Ge Lao Hutong, and later the Kang family had an accident, and everyone didn't dare to shout like this again, so they said the Ge Lao in reverse. ”

Became an old Ge.

Kang Ge Lao? Song Ning smacked her lips and wanted to say something, but her mind was empty, she shook out of the alley, and just as she was about to leave, she saw a fat Dundun figure squatting at the mouth of an alley across Qingque Street, burying her head and not knowing what to pull on the ground, but the exposed half of the butt groove was quite familiar!

"Miao Miao, lift your pants!" Lu Qingqing shouted.

Across the street is Anjia Lane, and the first place in the alley hangs a cloth banner with the word "clothes" written on it.

"My lord, brother!" Lu Miaomiao stood up, holding her pants in her left hand and waving her right hand, "Do you have something to look for me?" I am here. ”

Song Ning asked Lu Qingqing: "Is that the shop of a beautiful tailor?" ”

Lu Miaomiao's "third home" is what he said.

He had already discussed the marriage with the beautiful tailor, and the beautiful tailor said that she would be widowed for her husband for the rest of her life, so Miao Miao also decided to accompany her to be widowed.

In addition to mixing in the yamen, he also mingled here to guard the door for the beautiful tailor.

"My lord, come on, let's play here!" Lu Miaomiao kept asking Song Ning to see, "Sister Chunniang is at home." ”

Song Ning bowed: "Another day, it's a busy day." ”

Everyone was not interested, Lu Qingqing scolded him: "If you don't go back to work, you owe a beating." ”

Lu Miaomiao pedaled into the house, caught up after a while, and followed back to the yamen.

In the case that Lei Song brought over, the deceased's clothes were placed in a wooden box.

The inside and outside of the two sets of clothes, both of which are made of silk, the inner middle garment is white, and the outer garment is a blue straight coat, the cuffs and placket are rolled with silver edges, and a few flowers are embroidered with silver thread.

There is also one embroidered on the corner of the clothes, specially embroidered, like a small yellow flower blooming on the ridge in autumn, and the eight-petal leaves are delicate and small.

In addition to clothes, there is also a purse and a wrench. The purse is also embroidered with small yellow flowers, and the jade quality of the wrench is very good, but the style is very ordinary.

"The material of this dress has also been checked by my subordinates, and it is very expensive from Jiangnan." Lei Song said, "So my subordinates have always felt that this person is the noble son of which family." ”

Song Ning shook off his straight shirt and said, "When I learned the stitches of the women in Luoyang, I think it is different, and everyone's craftsmanship is unique. I don't know whose hand it is from such a beautiful dress! ”

The small yellow flower on the purse is exactly the same as the one on the clothes, and it should be from one person.

"I also checked the wrench back then, but I didn't find the way to it."

Song Ning sat down, looked at Lei Song and said, "It's not for nothing that this case has become a headless case. ”

"yes, it was so hard back then." Rayson sighed.

Song Ning asked, "Didn't you say there was a portrait?" Didn't find it? ”

"Nope." Lei Song also felt strange, "There was indeed a portrait back then, and my subordinates still clearly remember that when the portrait was posted at the door, someone came in to identify the corpse." ”

"I don't know why it's gone, and it's possible that it fell out when it was cleaned up in the middle." Lei Song asked, "My lord, do you want to open the coffin and do you have a skull restoration?" ”

It's not impossible! Song Ning took the clothes of the deceased in a daze: "Have you checked this fabric carefully?" ”

"No, do you want to check it?"

Song Ning said to Yan Feng and Qiu: "Come and see, is this fabric particularly good?" ”

"This material, made in Jiangnan, this kind of soft but not collapsed fabric, can rarely be bought outside." "You can ask the Weaving Bureau when this batch of cloth came." ”

Qiu said, "I'll go." ”

Lei Song smacked his mouth, he didn't expect this back then.

Qiu checked it quickly, and took a piece of fabric that was exactly the same.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

"What does this mean? Negon's cloth? Raison asked.

Qiu nodded one after another: "This kind of fabric, the harem will be selected first, and the rest will be sent to various palaces, and then there will be each noble." ”

"Isn't it easy to find out who got the fabric?" Raison asked.

Song Ning bowed his head and said: "To check the origin of the material, it is better to ask an expert if you recognize this stitch and this little flower." ”

On the contrary, it is recognizable.

(End of chapter)