The government notice said that a woman's body was found in an abandoned house in Luoyang City yesterday. The woman was wearing a green Luo skirt, aged seventeen or eighteen, and judging from the scene, it looked like a suicide.

Xing Ruyi looked at the portrait of the woman in the proclamation that was so abstract that it was impossible to do it, and asked the fox: "With such a portrait, can you ancient people really identify who is here?" ”

"Su Xiaoyu, the second lady of the Su family who came to the rouge shop yesterday." The fox only glanced at it, and told the identity of the victim who the government had been looking for for most of the day.

"Su Xiaoyu is the second miss of the Su family who made a fortune by selling alpacas in the Western Regions." Xing Ruyi looked carefully at the notice in his hand again: "Fox, can you tell me how you recognized her as Su Xiaoyu through such a portrait?" Su Xiaoyu has a round face, yes, but people are very cute and have a baby fat little round face, what is this on the portrait? This is a jade plate, and it is the kind that can be compared to the full moon. Su Xiaoyu's eyes are also round, if you look at the eyes of this portrait, this is clearly Danfeng's eyes, anyway, I look no different from the eyes of those kind Guanyin Niangniang in the temple. And this nose and this mouth, there is no resemblance at all. ”

"The eyebrows are the same, and the mole at the corner of the mouth." It's okay if the fox doesn't say it, but as soon as he says it, Xing Ruyi becomes more and more depressed.

"You mean, just by the movement of this eyebrow and this mole on the corner of her mouth, you can identify her as Su Xiaoyu, the second lady of the Su family." Xing Ruyi sat down on the stool in frustration: "You know what? In our time, the criminal's portrait was restored to that look, and we still couldn't concretize the character through images. To put it bluntly, even if you see it on the street, you can't be sure that he must be the one who is officially wanted. And you, relying on such an abstract portrait that is impossible to work, can find the source of the corpse, and even accurately identify the identity of the deceased. Oh my God, are you too smart, or are we too stupid. ”

"It's not that we're smart, it's not that you're stupid, it's habit. It's like writing, we're used to using brushes, and we can't write with your pen at all. If you're used to that kind of pen, you can't write with a brush. People here have seen such portraits since childhood, and of course, they can identify whether the people in the portraits are known by themselves. ”

"Well, I believe what you said, the fox must be right." Xing Ruyi lay on the table, "But why did this Su Xiaoyu die so well?" Suicide? The notice said she had committed suicide. How could it be, when she came to the shop yesterday to buy something, she didn't look like the kind of person who wanted to kill herself. ”

"Some people are good at camouflage, and some people are not."

"I know what you mean, there are a lot of people who are smiling all day long, but in fact, they are not happy, when they are alone, they will always fall into all kinds of low emotions, feel that they are worthless, what to do. On the other hand, there are other people who talk all day long that this is not good, that is unsatisfactory, and nagging that they don't want to live anymore and want to die or something. As a result, everyone who lived a long life and was 100 years old was happy to become an old goblin in the eyes of others. ”

"Who is happy to become an old goblin, is it a wishful girl?" Xiao Shengzi walked in with his own matching knife: "Ruyi girl, under the pretext of drinking water, I'm about to die of thirst." ”

"I'm only a few steps away from your yamen, why don't you go back to the yamen to drink?"

"I don't dare to go, I don't dare to go back, I'm afraid of being scolded by adults." Xiao Shengzi hung his head dejectedly: "Ruyi girl, you are the one who runs a rouge shop, you don't know how busy we are when we are busy in the yamen, and how unlucky we are when we are unlucky." ”

"How unlucky it can be, isn't it just that a female deceased was found in a broken house. Oh, by the way, the fox just recognized the man on your notice. Her name is Su Xiaoyu, and she is the second lady of the Su family, who specializes in selling alpacas in the Western Regions. ”

"We already know that." Xiao Shengzi swallowed a big mouthful of water: "Brother Chang has already found out her identity." ”

"The identity has been found out, what are you still doing with a sad face."

"There was a pregnant woman missing, and the chief, that is, Brother Chang, asked me to find it. You said that this Luoyang City is not big, but it is not small, just such a pregnant woman, who knows where she ran to. In the vast sea of people, where should I go to find it? I've been there for almost two hours, and I've been busy since I got up in the morning, and I still don't have a clue. I was so drunk that I didn't dare to go home, nor did I dare to go back to the yamen, so I had to come to you. By the way, Ruyi girl, have you ever seen a pregnant woman who looks like this? ”

Xiao Shengzi said, took out a portrait of a woman from his arms and spread it on the table. Needless to say, this is another portrait that is so abstract that it can't be done in Xing Ruyi's view. In her eyes, this lost pregnant woman looks exactly like the previous deceased Su Xiaoyu.

"Who is this? We look very similar to Su Xiaoyu. ”

"Like?" Xiao Shengzi picked up the portrait and looked at it carefully: "It's not like, Su Xiaoyu has a round face, and her sister-in-law has an apricot face." Su Xiaoyu has not yet been married, she combs her hair in a bun, and her sister-in-law has already entered the door of the Su family, and now she is pregnant, so this comb is naturally a woman's bun. Also, Su Xiaoyu's complexion is whiter, and her sister-in-law is a little darker. ”

"Tell me, how do you judge the skin color of a person in such a portrait?"

"The heavier the ink, the darker the person. Another thing is to look at the hair, if the hair is very thin, it means that the person is black and white, because people with white skin will have a relatively light hair color. Conversely, it is the darker skin tone. If the girl doesn't believe me, I can take out a portrait of a man and let you compare it. ”

"No, no, no." Xing Ruyi waved his hand again and again, and said in his heart, you just let me see, I guess I still can't see any way. But there was a message that she received: "You just said that the lost pregnant woman is Su Xiaoyu's sister-in-law?" ”

"Yes, the lost pregnant woman is the sister-in-law of the deceased Su Xiaoyu." Xiao Shengzi nodded: "Su Xiaoyu's sister-in-law is named Fang Qing, and she is the only daughter of the Fang family. Fang family, Miss Ruyi knows, right? It's the one who specializes in the forage business. Many of the horses, mules, and cattle in Luoyang City ate the forage provided by their Fang family. Don't look at this business, it sounds like that kind of small business, in fact, the Fang family, like the Su family, is the kind of special wealthy. It's just that others don't look down on the business they do, and they don't think they have money. ”

"And how did you know they were rich?" Xing Ruyi asked.

Xiao Shengzi scratched the back of his neck and said, "Originally, I was the same as those people, I felt that the Su family and the Fang family were not very good, and I felt that they were the same as those merchants who sold livestock in the countryside. It was Brother Chang who told me that the two are completely different. Let's take the alpacas of the Su family as an example, that thing, we Datang don't have it at all, and it was all transported back from a long distance by the Su family. The number is small, so small that ordinary people like us can only hear the name, and we can't even see alpaca wool. This alpaca can only be kept in the royal garden or in the courtyard of the queen's family. These rich and noble families, raising this alpaca, that is, a rarity, can see it, not necessarily raise it, and have to rely on the Su family. Therefore, the Su family's business is not just as simple as being rich.

The Fang family's forage business seems to be quite ordinary, but how many horses, mules, and cattle are there in Luoyang City. When I calculated this, I felt scared and panicked. I also heard that the Fang family has built a lot of pasture in the north, and the forage in Luoyang City is all transported from their Fang family's own pasture in the north. The price is not low either. ”

"Since you know that she is Su Xiaoyu's sister-in-law, why don't you go to the Su family to look for her?"

"Of course I went looking for it, but I didn't find it." Xiao Shengzi looked at Xing Ruyi in frustration: "According to the people of their Su family, this Fang Qing was lost one day earlier than Su Xiaoyu's death. ”

"Did the people of the Su family tell you how this Fang Qing got lost? Fang Qing is pregnant, shouldn't all pregnant women stay at home and take care of the fetus? Even if you want to leave the house, according to the family conditions of the two Su families, there should be a maid family to follow, which is good, how can people be lost. ”

I asked, and it was said that the couple had a quarrel. This Sujia company is a stubborn temper, this Fang Qing is also a straightforward character, since the two of them became relatives, they have quarreled from time to time. The strange thing is that if this was another couple, they would have been so noisy all day long, and the relationship would have faded a long time ago, but Su Gongzi and Fang Qing seemed to be the more noisy the better. This Su family is in the east of Luoyang City, and the Fang family is in the south. As long as the young couple quarrels, Fang Qing will go back to her parents' house, and then wait for Su Gongzi to pick them up. This Su Gongzi seems to like this. Generally, I went to Fang's house to pick up Fang Qing every other day or two days. The Su family is used to it, and the Fang family is also used to it, no one expected that something would happen this time.

Fang Qing quarreled and left the Su family, and the people of the Su family thought that she had returned to the Fang family. A day later, Su Gongzi and his sister Su Xiaoyu went out together, Su Xiaoyu went out shopping, and Su Gongzi went to Fang's house to pick up his wife back. Who knows, this sister was killed, and the lady is nowhere to be found. ”

"Then what did this Fang Qing say before leaving the Su family?"

"No, it's the same as the quarrel before, I didn't even take a change of clothes, so I went straight out of the house and went back to Fang's house."

"Who sent it?"

"No one, this Fang Qing's family sells forage, she has a horse farm at home, and she grew up on the horse farm since she was a child. Not only can ride a horse, but also ride a shot. Every time I go back to my parents' house, I drive the carriage by myself and never let anyone send it. ”

"What about the carriage? The man is missing, and the carriage is missing? Xing Ruyi asked again, but saw Xiao Shengzi nodding sullenly.

"Yes, the carriage is missing."