Chapter Forty-Four: Revisiting the Deserted House
Walking on the slightly wet gravel road after the rain, the surroundings are so quiet that you can only occasionally hear a few birds chirping. Xie Lingxu stopped, turned his face to look at the silent eaves on the side, couldn't help but snort coldly, took a step and walked forward.
Walking around the corner, and then walking dozens of meters, Xie Lingxu exhaled and finally couldn't help but speak:
"Sneak around with me for three days, what the hell do you want to do."
No one responded, and Xie Lingxu couldn't help frowning: "I don't know what your purpose is, but I can probably guess what you're coming for, I remember your name...... Mu Yun. β
"How long are you going to follow me?"
"Eh, Lingxu, who are you talking to?"
Xie Lingxu turned around and saw Chu Xiu coming from a distance looking at him with a puzzled face.
"it...... What are you doing? β
Chu Xiu was stunned by her serious expression: "I...... That, Lao Xiao asked me to tell you that the identity of the deceased has been found. β
"What?"
"There are palace maids and eunuchs who have identified that the person who died is Yang Ke, and this person is ...... The eunuch who was on duty beside the king of Shang before. β
"It's related to the king of Shang again......"
The father-in-law next to the king of Shang disappeared for no reason, but no one reported to the Nine Governors, such a big living person is gone, so many people come and go in the palace of the king of Shang can't see it?
"Do you need to find an opportunity to ask the Shang King?"
"No need, what can the old fox admit." Xie Lingxu bowed his hand, turned around and planned to leave.
"Eh, you just ...... Talk to this? β
Xie Lingxu pointed his finger at himself: "Me? Who can I talk to? Do you see anyone else here? β
Chu Xiu opened his mouth: "Oh......"
"Alright, I'll go."
"Okay, you...... Be careful. β
"I know."
Xie Lingxu looked around, there was no trace of waves in the calm blue bricks and white tiles, and he exhaled deeply, and Xie Lingxu walked forward. Around the corner, I saw a silver-white waist chain glowing with a cold light......
Zhishi Medical Centerββ
Xie Lingxu crossed Erlang's legs, sat on the wooden chair with a big grin, and flipped through the list of eunuchs and palace maids that Gonggong Liu had painstakingly found for more than ten years in the palace.
Due to the unexplained tragic death of Boss Li, Mrs. Li's mood was extremely unstable, considering that she was still pregnant, the people of Jiudumen sent her to Dr. Zhou for recuperation and treatment, so that she could see Mrs. Li who was looking for death during the investigation in Beishi.
Xiao Qixin glanced at Xie Lingxu, who was tilting his head and flipping through the roster, turned his head and asked Dr. Zhou, who was taking Mrs. Li's pulse:
"How is she?"
Dr. Zhou put down Mrs. Li's hand, and his tone was a little solemn: "The patient's pulse is very unstable, and his mood has fluctuated too much recently, so he needs to be carefully recuperated immediately, otherwise, he will ...... It may hurt the tire gas. β
"Then it will be bothering Dr. Zhou to bother to heal Mrs. Li."
"Hmmm......"
Xiao Qixin was a little embarrassed and said, "It's really ...... lately Sorry for your help. β
"Don't get in the way, it's the duty of a doctor to save people, there's nothing troublesome or troublesome. Let the patient stay here and observe and think of something else. Dr. Zhou got up and went to the pharmacy to get the medicine. Xiao Qixin tilted his head and looked at Dr. Zhou's back, thinking that he probably thought that even if Mrs. Li woke up, she might not necessarily cooperate with the treatment, which was really a tricky thing.
Xie Lingxu stared at a line on a page of the roster for a few seconds, raised his eyebrows, closed the notebook and put it to the side, and stood up and walked towards Xiao Qixin.
"How's Mrs. Lee?"
"Still not awake."
"It's okay if you don't wake up, and when you wake up, you may have to look for death and life." Xie Lingxu picked up the gourd bottle tied around his waist and poured saliva.
Xiao Qixin frowned: "Eh...... You say, the eunuch who was fished up in the well yesterday could be the Yang Gonggong that Tan Yi said? β
"Nine times out of ten, that's it."
"I think eighty percent of this case is related to the king of Shang, and it has nothing to do with Cheng Qi of the Longsha Gang. Is there some collusion between these two people? β
"If you don't look it up, you'll find out."
"But ah, yesterday's case really told you right, it was the neighbor's petty grudge, and he killed someone if he couldn't get over it. Hey...... Let me tell you, the murderer was kicked in the head by a donkey, and before leaving, he said a cruel word, saying that we don't have the ability to catch the person who committed the big crime, so we can only arrest the small people and hawkers, and I will ......"
Xie Lingxu was noncommittal, and smiled faintly: "Don't take it to heart, people are not like this, always thinking that they can pick up a leak and fish in troubled waters when they are in chaos." β
Xiao Qixin chatted about broken hair: "If it weren't for the stupid people of Jiudumen who didn't leave any key information, this case might have been solved long ago, and the province would still be wasted like a headless fly." β
Xie Lingxu nodded sympathetically, and turned his face to see Ning Jun lowering his head and looking intently at something like an account book.
"Looking at the accounts?" Xie Lingxu turned his head and saw that the handwriting on the account book was neatly arranged, like a masterpiece of everyone.
"The handwriting is good......"
Ning Jun closed the page uncomfortably: "It was written by Dr. Zhou." β
Xie Lingxu nodded, thinking that Chinese medicine was all wild grass, and writing it down was a book of heaven, but he didn't expect that this week's doctor's handwriting was so neat and simply subverted his traditional cognition.
Ning Jun put the account book aside: "By the way, Doctor Zhou asked me to ask, Miss Xie, how is your injury?" β
"Minor injury, nothing serious." Xie Lingxu intervened in the awkward air for a moment.
"By the way, do you know Fanri?"
Ning Jun thought for a few seconds, pursed his lips and said, "Hmm...... He used to come to see him occasionally, but after that, he didn't see him much, but recently he seems to have heard that he ......" Ning Jun implicitly did not continue.
Xie Lingxu comprehended, and then asked, "Then do you know Li Shi?" β
Ning Jun was stunned for a moment, and Xie Lingxu keenly caught the strangeness in the former's eyes.
"Isn't he dead too? How-" Ning Jun stopped again in an elusive voice.
"Looks like you know him."
Ning Jun sighed: "Of course I know him, this person is a begging for food, and he used to squat at the door of the medical hall all day long, doing some inconsistencies." β
Seeing the obvious disgust in his eyes, Xie Lingxu asked again, "What...... Something that doesn't matter? β
"What else could it be, what a ruffian would do! In short, he was upset when he saw him, and no one treated him well. β
Xie Lingxu was taken aback, it seems that this Li Xi's reputation is indeed stinky in this place.
"Ning Jun, come and grab the medicine." Doctor Zhou waved his hand to Ning Jun in the distance, and the latter gestured to Xie Lingxu's eyes and walked over.
"Xiao Xie, why are you asking him this?" Xiao Qixin looked at the woman beside him who was looking intently at Ning Jun's back in confusion.
"It's okay to ask."
Xiao Qixin touched his chin with his hand, feeling that the stubble that had grown recently was a little prickly.
When everyone left the Zhishi Medical Hall, they saw that there were many ordinary people around the corner not far away, shouting and discussing something, and Xie Lingxu pondered the expressions on their faces.
Astonished...... Fear......
"What's going on? Dead again? What are the bunches of people looking around? Chu Xiu raised his chin and pulled away the crowd.
Xie Lingxu walked neatly through the men and women around him, and when he raised his eyes, his pupils were stunned by the scene in front of him-
There was a line of dazzling blood stains on the ruined wall in front of him, and the undried blood beads flowed down the cracks in the wall to look particularly hideous, and I don't know who left a row of blood words under it - the world is not good, and evil spirits are coming.
"This ...... This isβ" Xiao Qixin turned his head and glanced at Xie Lingxu, and then took a closer look at the bloodstained wall.
"When the did you write this. This handwriting...... Xiao Xie you also feel that it is different from the note. β
Xie Lingxu nodded: "Well, it's obviously different, but it doesn't mean anything." β
Chu Xiu and the three or two patrols dispersed the crowd who were watching the strange people here with the pestle: "Let's go, let's make some fun, what is there to see, take a quick walk......
Xiao Qixin: "Who did this?" Someone else died? Don't...... This was written by the murderer? β
Xie Lingxu: "I don't know, but I have to trouble you now...... Come with me somewhere. β
Xiao Qixin looked suspicious: "Where to go?" β
"The deserted house."
Soon after, I came here again, probably because the weather was getting cooler, and the stench in the house was much lighter than last time.
Thanks to the temperature, the intensity of the molecular heat movement has been slowed down, otherwise you would have to wear an oxygen mask to enter this hellish place.
Xie Lingxu put on a coat and covered his hands, feet, and neck tightly. The room was only about ten square meters, and there were too many people who entered to make it inconvenient to move, Xie Lingxu and Xiao Qixin entered the room, and only King You followed behind with a casual face.
As soon as the three entered, they searched the room.
Xie Lingxu moved to the side of the thin bed, leaned over and turned over the hemp quilt that had not had time to be sorted out and was set aside at will.
The material of the quilt is very awkward on the surface, and it seems that Li Shi's life is simply inhuman.
After pulling for a moment and not finding anything, Xie Lingxu walked to the head of the bed, looked at the pillow that was as hard as a stone, and leaned down to lift it......
Really......
Xie Lingxu waved his hand at Xiao Qixin and motioned for him to come over and take a look.
"What? Did you find? β
Xie Lingxu handed a scarf to Xiao Qixin on the side of the pillow, and the latter took a look, I don't know how long the scarf had been placed, and the corners had been taken off, but it could still be seen that it had been carefully protected.
"What can a scarf see? The deceased loved to be clean when he was alive? β
"Look what's up there?"
Xiao Qixin took a closer look, and there was a faint ink residue on the yellowed scarf. Although I can't help the years, the color of the ink has been a lot, but I can barely see what is written on it.
There are only two words on the scarf - Li Shi.
"What, why did he write his name?"
"The handwriting is very delicate, like it was written by a woman."
"I'll ...... Hasn't this beggar ever been to the Qinglou? β
Xie Lingxu was noncommittal, and said that people who are poor also pursue beauty and ...... That's the right to something.
"If it's written by a woman, it must be from the Qinglou? I think you want to go somewhere, right? β
"There's no no, there's no thing." Xiao Qixin smiled embarrassedly.
"You take it first, and then look for anything else......"
Yuwang: "Come and seeβ"