Through the reddish curtain, Yanagi looked around.

It was a typical women's boudoir, and the owner of the boudoir was lying on his side on the dresser.

His pupils widened and his face was pale, but there was a strange pink on his cheeks, which looked a little terrifying.

The deceased's surname was Qin, whose name was Shu Yao, and she was the only daughter of Qin Zhongming, a local cloth merchant. At the age of sixteen, he spends most of his time in his own room, rarely goes out, and rarely has contact with outsiders.

The first to discover the deceased was Qin Shuyao's maid, named Bi Tao, who had been by her side since she was three years old, and was her personal maid, and the closest person to her on weekdays.

Yanagi examined the deceased. His clothes were intact, there were no signs of arguments or struggles, and there were no external injuries on his body. In the hands of the deceased, a box of rouge was held. The lid of the box was a little loose, and when I opened it, I could smell a faint fragrance of peach blossoms.

Liu Sheng glanced at the rouge in his hand, and then moved his gaze to the deceased's face, "Come and see, your young lady's face is smeared with this box of rouge?" ”

The maid Bitao was the first to find out that the young lady was dead, and in addition to being severely frightened, she was also a little sad and sad. When Liu Sheng asked, she was still bowing her head and sobbing, and it took a long time before she looked up at her own young lady.

"This box of rouge was bought by Miss only today. Oh, no, it should be said that when I bought something else, the shopkeeper gave it extra. Because it is a little different from the rouge sold in ordinary rouge shops, the lady likes it very much. ”

"I'm asking you, is this box of rouge smeared on your young lady's face?"

Bi Tao bit her lip and looked at Liu Sheng and didn't dare to answer.

"Say!"

"It's not that Bi Tao doesn't want to answer adults, but Bi Tao doesn't know either."

"Aren't you your young lady's personal maid?"

"yes!" Bi Tao nodded: "Bi Tao has been by Miss's side since she was three years old. ”

"Why, then, do you say you don't know?"

"Back to my lord, Bi Tao really doesn't know." Bi Tao was in a hurry, and almost cried: "In the past, Bi Tao was indeed waiting for Miss to make up, but in recent days, Miss has been unwell and is not in the mood to smear these things, so ......"

"Forget it, I'll change the question. What did you do before your lady's accident? ”

"Buy medicine!"

"Buying medicine?"

"Yes! The young lady has been unwell in recent days and has been on bed rest most of the time. I heard that a new pharmacy had opened in the city, and it was still a female doctor who saw her, so Mrs. Bi Tao asked Bi Tao to accompany the young lady to see a doctor.

Early this morning, after dinner, Bi Tao asked the housekeeper to pack up a carriage and took the young lady to the newly opened Ruyi rouge shop in the city. The shop is divided into two floors, the first floor sells rouge gouache, and the second floor is the pharmacy for consultation, and the shopkeeper is the same person. ”

"Can this shopkeeper who sells rouge gouache still see a doctor?"

Lin Hu had just asked the other people in the mansion, and when he stepped through the door, he heard Bi Tao's words. So, I involuntarily interjected.

"At first, we all thought it was strange. This rouge gouache seller and the female doctor who see a doctor seem to be two different things. But not long after this shop opened, we all knew about it in Yong'an City. Madame, Miss Li, I like the different rouge gouache in this rouge shop, as well as all kinds of things that are inside and outside. This old man and child praised the medical skills of the female doctor, saying that the old problem that had not been seen well for many years was in the hands of the female doctor, and it was easy to take care of it. If it weren't for that, my wife wouldn't have been able to let me take my young lady to a doctor. ”

"This rouge was also given by the female doctor?"

"Hmm!" Bi Tao nodded: "My young lady suffers from the kind of disease that only girls have, and when it is serious, not only is it uncomfortable on the body, but even the head will be swollen and painful." The female doctor only glanced at it, and without even giving her pulse, she told the symptoms of the young lady, and said that the pimples and spots on the young lady's face were related to the stagnation of the young lady's liver and qi and the poor blood flow.

Subsequently, the female doctor prescribed medicine to the young lady. The medicine is not the kind of bitter medicine prescribed by ordinary doctors, but a small pill. The name is very good, it is called Peach Blossom Pill, which is said to be taken from the first blooming peach blossoms, dried, ground and sifted, and then refined into pills after adding honey. It's also very convenient to take, just take one pill in the morning and one pill in the evening. ”

The young lady was very happy to hear this, and bought two courses of treatment at once. The female doctor probably saw that my young lady was happy, so she gave this box of rouge to my young lady, saying that it would be used internally and externally, which would make the young lady's face more and more beautiful.

After returning to the house, the young lady took a pill according to the instructions of the female doctor. I saw that the young lady was a little tired, so I helped her to the bed and told her to rest for a while. Before leaving, the young lady made a special explanation and asked me to call her after an hour. said that after she woke up, she wanted to read quietly for a while.

In the past, the young lady also had the habit of reading by herself, and when she was reading, she didn't like to be disturbed by others. So, as the young lady had instructed, I came and knocked on the door after an hour. After knocking a few times, but no one answered in the room, I pushed open the door and came in to check. Unexpectedly, I saw Miss ......"

"I see, you stand down." Liu Sheng waved his hand and handed the rouge in his hand to Lin Hu: "Have you done it?" ”

"It's here, just waiting outside."

"Tell me to come in."

"Are you suspicious of this young lady......" Lin Hu shook the rouge box in his hand.

"I just checked, there are no external injuries on Miss Shu Yao's body, and there are no traces of death caused by external forces, and you see, she is lying on her side on this dresser. The whole posture seemed very natural, which showed that nothing special had happened to her before she lost her breath. Although the complexion was a little horrible, it was not distorted, indicating that there was no pain before death. The only strange thing was the two pink blush on her face. ”

"If there is no external injury, it can only be an internal cause. There are two internal causes, one is disease, and the other is poisoning. Did the maid mention it just now, saying that her young lady had the kind of disease that only women have, so could the cause of the young lady's death be that? ”

"It's impossible to judge at the moment, so we need to come in and check in detail."

"What if the cause of Miss's death wasn't due to illness?" Lin Hu shook the rouge box in his hand again: "In this box of rouge, will it be poisoned?" ”

"And that Peach Blossom Pill. You go and ask that peach blossom to see what that peach blossom pill looks like. Taking advantage of the inspection, we also went to meet the female doctor who could not only sell rouge gouache, but also see a doctor. ”

In the Ruyi rouge shop, Xing Ruyi sneezed lightly. She rubbed her nose and saw the fox standing at the window, looking out.

"What's new going on out there?"

"Someone died!"

"Someone died?" Xing Ruyi stood up suddenly: "Who died?" How did he die? ”

"I don't know!"

"I don't know? Can't see because you don't have enough vision? ”

Xing Ruyi also walked to the window, stood side by side with the fox, and looked out. There are people coming and going on the street, which is not more lively than Luoyang, but it is definitely not deserted in this small place. But look around, she didn't see what the fox just said, where is the person who died?

"Over there!" The fox pointed in one direction and showed Xing Ruyi: "The black and white qi are entangled, which means that someone has just died over there, and he is very young." The white color is mixed with some pink, indicating that the deceased is a young woman. And I still have a bad premonition that this woman who died mysteriously has something to do with our rouge shop. ”

"Don't scare me." Xing Ruyi patted his chest with a gesture: "My rouge shop has just opened, if it gets involved in a life lawsuit, wouldn't it be unlucky." ”

"It's talking about bad luck, but it's actually more interesting." The fox lightly scratched Xing Ruyi's nose: "I have a hunch that we can see two old people today." ”

"Isn't it? Another deceased. Xing Ruyi made a slightly bitter face: "Could it be that Xiao Shengzi and Duan Niang returned to Yong'an again?" ”

"It's not them." The fox shook his head, and hugged Xing Ruyi into his arms by the way: "Don't worry, it's just a little trouble, my wife can deal with it." ”

"I don't think the more you say that, the more I don't know what to do."

As soon as Xing Ruyi finished saying this, he saw the young man running up.

"The shopkeeper, someone downstairs is looking for them, it's the two officials."

"Well, look at your fox mouth, you've really provoked me with trouble."

The fox glared speechlessly, and said in his heart, "Did I provoke this trouble?"

Nudged the fox, Xing Ruyi broke free from the fox's arms, and when he followed the young man downstairs, he didn't forget to say to him: "I'll go down and take a look first, if I can't do it, then you will go out of the horse." ”

The fox smiled and nodded, watching Xing Ruyi disappear at the corner of the stairs, and then turned into a wisp of white eyes and headed towards the Qin family's mansion.

Xing Ruyi didn't expect that the two officials standing downstairs were actually her old friends.

Catch the willow and the forest tiger.

Liu Sheng and Lin Hu were also slightly taken aback when they saw Xing Ruyi, because they didn't expect that the mysterious female shopkeeper in the Ruyi rouge shop, the female doctor, was still their old friend.

"I'll just say, how can there be such a capable woman in this world, who can be a female doctor and a female shopkeeper by the way. It wasn't until I saw Ruyi that I felt that this was nothing unusual. Lin Hu was quick and said it directly.

"Are you praising me or are you praising me?" Seeing that it was someone he knew, Xing Ruyi no longer held the shelf, but pointed to the table next to him and invited them to sit down: "Why did you also arrive in Yong'an?" ”

"It's a long story, and I can't tell you what I think for a while. In short, we are now the fast catcher on this Yong'an realm. The place has changed, but the official has not been promoted. Speaking of which, I think it's embarrassing. ”

"Officialdom is not easy to mix, and there is nothing wrong with being a little catcher." Xing Ruyi said, his eyes fell on Liu Sheng's face: "You two must not come to see me, an old man, today." Say, is there something coming to me? ”

"Qin Shuyao is dead!"

Yanagi spat out five words softly.