Chapter 30: Suspicious
Tang Yi ran back to the yamen, immediately found the head of the yamen, and asked eagerly: "Do you know where Mrs. Jia in the 'Jia's Inn' lives in the town?" ”
The head of the official nodded and said, "Yes." ”
"Then you take me now." Tang Yi asked eagerly.
Seeing Tang Yi's serious face, the head of the official felt as if there was something urgent. He didn't ask, immediately took the torch and walked towards Mrs. Jia's residence with Tang Yi.
"This is where they live." The head of the official pointed to a house and said.
The head of the official stepped forward and was about to knock on the door.
"Wait, I'll take a look." Tang Yi immediately stopped. He jumped slightly, and the whole person easily arrived in the house.
The head of the official waited quietly for Tang Yi outside the door. Full of doubts: "In the middle of the night, Tang Gongzi secretly ran into someone else's house, what did he want to do?" But don't be mistaken for a thief by your master.
Soon, Tang Yi jumped out of the house. He asked the head of the officer, "Do you know that Mrs. Jia and her husband and wife have any other places to live?" ”
The head of the official thought for a moment, shook his head like a rattle, and said in a loud voice, "I have not heard that they have any other place to live." ”
Tang Yi pondered for a moment, pointed to several residences around Mrs. Jia's residence and asked, "During the day today, all the people you are looking for live here?" ”
The official held the torch and looked at it, "That's right, these are the families." They are all neighbors of Mrs. Jia. ”
Tang Yi looked at it, staring at Mrs. Jia's residence and pondering.
The head of the official couldn't help but ask, "Tang Gongzi, what's wrong with this household?" ”
Tang Yi shook his head and said, "I don't know, let's go back first." After saying that, he left with the head of the official office.
Tang Yi and the head of the yamen went to the yamen together. He asked the head of the official to go in first, but he himself walked towards Xiao Ze's house with a torch.
'Knock knock'
Xiao Ze heard someone knocking on the door, and muttered as he got up, "Who, come to knock on the door in the middle of the night." ”
Xiao Ze opened the door, "Tang Yi? It's so late, you don't rest, what's going on in the middle of the night? ”
"I ask you. What did you ask Madame Jia today? Tang Yi didn't answer Xiao Ze's question, but asked him a question in a hurry.
Xiao Ze shook his head.
"What about Mrs. Jia? Got home? Tang Yi then asked.
"She kept saying she wasn't feeling well, and I told her to go back." Xiao Ze replied.
"Mrs. Jia is home? Tang Yi muttered.
Xiao Ze saw Tang Yi's frowns and asked, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? ”
"It's okay, I'm here to find Jiong Yan." After Tang Yi finished speaking, he went straight to the inner room to find Jiong Yan.
When Jiong Yan heard Tang Yi coming, he got up and came out, without waiting for him to ask.
Tang Yi pulled Jiong Yan and said hurriedly: "Follow me." ”
Xiao Ze looked at the back of the two of them leaving suspiciously, and wanted to follow, but after looking at Mu Yu who was resting, he dispelled the idea of following.
Tang Yi pulled Jiong Yan to a place and stopped. said to Jiong Yan: Do you know where this is? ”
Jiong Yanhu asked, "Street, what's wrong?" ”
"Do you know who lives in this house?" Tang Yi asked, pointing to the door of a house.
Jiong Yan looked at it, shook his head and said he didn't know.
Tang Yi said: "Mrs. Jia lives here. ”
Jiong Yan looked at the house, looked at Tang Yi and asked, "You brought me here in the middle of the night to come and see Mrs. Jia's house?" ”
Tang Yi looked at Jiong Yan, pointed to the house and said, "Yes, let's go in and have a look together." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Yi jumped lightly and jumped into Mrs. Jia's house. Jiong Yan immediately turned around and flashed in.
Jiong Yan and Tang Yi entered Mrs. Jia's house, and with the help of torches, they saw that the place where they settled was a small courtyard.
The small courtyard is orderly stocked with various objects, and there are several rooms around it.
Tang Yi glanced at these rooms and said, "I asked Xiao Ze about Mrs. Jia's whereabouts just now. He said that Mrs. Jia had returned home and was resting. But take a good look at ......"
Jiong Yan scanned the rooms. The doors of these rooms were closed, and even the windows were closed. muttered, "At this time, Mrs. Jia should rest at home." But there seems to be no one at home? ”
"What do you mean as if there is no one, this room is empty, there is no one at all.
I just slipped in and looked around every room, and there wasn't even a single figure. Tang Yi held the torch and scanned the whole room again.
"What do you want to say?" Jiong Yan stared at Tang Yi.
"Xiao Ze may have been deceived by Mrs. Jia." Tang Yi thought about Xiao Ze's behavior of defending Mrs. Jia, and became even more angry.
Jiong Yan looked at the whole room, and then thought about what Xiao Ze said that Mrs. Jia was not feeling well, and he asked Mrs. Jia to go home and rest.
But Mrs. Jia was not at home at all. He vaguely thought in his heart that Xiao Ze was really deceived by Mrs. Jia this time.
"Today, as soon as the jade flute met Mrs. Jia, it showed red. This means that Mrs. Jia is either a wolf demon or has had too much contact with a wolf demon for a long time.
So, I found people that Mrs. Jia had been in contact with for a long time in recent days, but in fact, these people were her neighbors.
I used the jade flute to check on her neighbor, and found that when the jade flute met Mrs. Jia's neighbor, it was a light red color.
That is to say, none of the people on the list of people she has been in contact with for a long time in recent days are wolf demons.
Since these people are not wolf demons, why did the jade flute turn red when she met Mrs. Jia? ”
Jiong Yan thought for a moment and said, "Mrs. Jia should have hidden it from us, the people she has been in contact with for a long time in the past few days, in addition to these neighbors, there should be other people. ”
"When I asked her today about the situation of the people with whom she had been in contact for a long time in recent days, but she did not tell the truth, you say, why is that?" Tang Yi asked slowly.
Jiong Yan pondered for a long time and guessed: "This person who has been in contact with her for a long time should have a good relationship with her." Fear that the man will be hurt. ”
"When we asked her, we didn't tell her why we were looking for people who had been in contact with her for a long time in recent days.
Since we don't know the reason for the search, how can Mrs. Jia determine that we will hurt the person we have been in contact with her for a long time in recent days? Tang Yi retorted.
Jiong Yan lowered his head and fell into deep thought.
"When you encounter something and can't figure it out, then think about it from another direction, maybe it will be bright." Tang Yi held the torch in one hand and put the other behind his back and said slowly,
"I instructed the officials to ask Mrs. Jia's neighbors who have been in contact for a long time in recent days.
Q: Who have they come into contact with in recent days? And let the officials take notes.
According to the records, these people have come into contact with the same person in recent days, and this person is Mrs. Jia.
There are also Xiao Ze, Yu Ruo and Li Chu in the 'Jia's Inn', the three of them work in the same inn, so they will also have contact with Mrs. Jia. ”
When Jiong Yan heard Tang Yi's analysis, he immediately understood it, and said: "You mean to say that these people may have come into contact with Mrs. Jia, as soon as Yudi met them,
That's why there is a light red reaction? ”
Tang Yi nodded at Jiong Yan.
"However, this is impossible, I hit the flower powder in the wolf demon's body, not in Mrs. Jia's body.
Even if the jade flute is red when it meets Mrs. Jia, this can only prove that Mrs. Jia has had long-term contact with the wolf demon.
These neighbors who have been in contact with Mrs. Jia, as well as Xiao Ze and a few of them, if there is no direct contact with the wolf demon,
And if he only touches Mrs. Jia alone, then the jade flute will not react. Jiong Yan took the torch from Tang Yi's hand, held the torch himself, looked and touched it as he walked, and analyzed it.
Jiong Yan's analysis is exactly what Tang Yi didn't understand.
Their analysis has reached an impasse.
A gust of wind blew, and the two of them smelled the flowers again.
"Did you smell anything?" Tang Yi looked at the small courtyard and asked.
Jiong Yan sniffed carefully, "There is a floral fragrance, this floral fragrance seems to have smelled somewhere." ”
"Do you still remember, the night we misunderstood that Mu Yu was sucking human blood? When we arrived, one of the victims had died from being sucked by the wolf demon with more than half of his essence blood.
Because we went in time, we found the demonic aura of the wolf demon from the victim's corpse, and this demonic aura was mixed with a faint floral fragrance......" Tang Yi reminded Jiong Yan.
Jiong Yan recalled, "Got it." The floral fragrance mixed with the demonic aura of the wolf demon is the same as this floral fragrance. ”
Tang Yi nodded. With the fragrance of flowers, I came to a corner of the small courtyard.
Jiong Yan also followed. They looked through the torches and saw that some pink flowers were planted in one part of the courtyard.
With a gentle breeze, these pink flowers swayed in the wind, and a scent came to the face.
Tang Yi squatted down, looked at the flowers, and muttered to himself, "Why does the fragrance of these flowers mix with the demonic aura of the wolf demon?" ”
Jiong Yan also squatted down and said unhurriedly: "Our demon clan, if we want to come to the world, we will definitely find a way to hide our demonic energy.
It is possible that the wolf demon will use the fragrance of these flowers to cover up its demonic energy. ”
"So, isn't it too much of a coincidence that this floral fragrance and the jade flute showed a red reaction when they met Mrs. Jia?"
The more Tang Yi thought about it, the more he felt that Mrs. Jia was suspicious.
Jiong Yan got up, pacing and pondering.
Suddenly, Jiong Yan asked Tang Yi slowly, "I remember you said in the past that you fought with the wolf demon for one night, but because of Mrs. Jia's intrusion, the wolf demon ran away?" ”
"That's right, the time I stabbed him with a short sword, it was because of Mrs. Jia's sudden exclamation that I was distracted, and the wolf demon took the opportunity to escape.
In the end, I mistakenly thought that you were the demon who sucked the essence and blood. Tang Yi also recalled, thinking about the past when he misunderstood Jiong Yan, he was still a little embarrassed.
Jiong Yan pondered for a while and asked, "Remember the last time we designed to catch the wolf demon, the wolf demon was able to escape smoothly from our hands, have you ever thought about the reason afterwards?" ”
Tang Yi nodded, and said while recalling: "At that time, he accidentally inhaled the spirit rune water I made, and because he didn't suck much, he still had some mana left.
then possessed Mrs. Jia, and finally escaped smoothly. ”
As soon as Tang Yi's words landed, he immediately glanced at Jiong Yan, and the expressions of the two instantly became serious.
Jiong Yan also immediately said: "It seems that when the wolf demon was subdued twice, Mrs. Jia was present. It's also too coincidental.
In my opinion, there is something wrong with this Mrs. Jia. We must find Madame Jia and ask her about it. ”
There is a different meaning in these words.
Tang Yi also nodded in agreement. After thinking about it, he had doubts in his heart, and asked Jiong Yan, "I don't know when Mrs. Jia will come back." ”
Tang Yi thought about it again, and when Xiao Ze defended Mrs. Jia today, he felt a little unhappy in his heart.
Jiong Yan glanced around and said, "Don't worry, Mrs. Jia will definitely come back in the next few days." You're just waiting here. The tone is affirmative.
"Really? How do you know? Tang Yi asked.
After Jiong Yan looked around, he said slowly: "You see that there is more or less dust on the sundries in this small courtyard, and there is also some dust on the windows of the house.
But you see, the soil of this flower has only just been renovated. It shows that Mrs. Jia, the owner of this house, cares about this flower very much. If you care, the owner of the house will not fail to take care of it. ”
After Tang Yi took a closer look, he felt that what Jiong Yan said was reasonable.
Jiong Yan slowly said to Tang Yi: "You can wait for the next few days." ”
After the two analyzed, they went home separately.