Pei Xia didn't speak, this meal was quite dull, Mu Changan regretted it a little, how interesting Pei Xia was today, I didn't know it if I knew it.

After the meal, Pei Xia and Mu Changan came to the medical hall, and after explaining their intentions, the doctor of the medical hall recalled: "I did see Miss Yinchuan a few days ago. When she came to see me at the end of last month, she asked me if I could make pills from the medicine she usually takes, and I told her that she could, but the price would be much higher, and she didn't seem to care too much, so she paid a deposit, and she came to settle the rest of the money and took the pills away that afternoon. ”

"Do you know where she went when she left home?" Pei Xia asked.

The doctor twisted his beard and said, "I don't know much about this, but I remember that she went out to the east at that time, and I wondered at the time that we should go west from Pomegranate Lane." ”

Pei Xia asked the price of the medicine again, and it was indeed not a small amount. According to Mrs. Chen, Yin Chuan did not take the jewelry and silver money with him when he ran away, which means that Yin Chuan had a property that Mrs. Chen did not know.

Combined with the theft in the silver room, it is very likely that this property is related to what the gang of thieves are looking for.

Coming out of the medical hall, Pei Xia and Mu Changan asked all the way in the direction pointed by the doctor, and finally found a rope tied to the beam of a ruined temple outside the city, in addition to many pills on the ground.

Pei Xia squatted down to pick up the pills, while Mu Changan walked around the broken temple and said, "Do you say that this will be the scene of Yin Chuan's murder?" ”

There is no shop in front of the village here, he and Pei Xia have not seen a passerby for a long time, and there are indeed conditions for being a secret killing place.

Pei Xia didn't jump to conclusions, she wrapped the pill in a handkerchief, and planned to go to the pharmacy later to find the doctor to confirm, and then start to inspect the ruined temple.

This ruined temple is not big, although the windows have been broken, but the roof tiles are still intact, fortunately, the scene was not completely destroyed by the heavy rain the day before yesterday.

The part of the ground near the middle is cleaner, and the further you go into the corners, the more dusty it becomes. The offering table was overturned to the ground, and the clay statue of the god was smashed to the point that only a base remained, and the fragments were scattered to the ground.

Pei Xia looked at the offering table, the cloth on the table was long gone, but the table looked quite clean, as if someone had wiped it. Not far from the offering table, there was a pile of ashes after the firewood had been burned, Pei Xia took a fragment of the idol and flicked it, there was a layer of black dirt on the ground underneath, she scraped it several times before she could barely reveal some color, it looked like someone had burned firewood here more than once or twice.

"It seems that someone ......lives here" Pei Xia was just about to stand up, her eyes swept over the fragments of the idol at her feet and suddenly stopped, she looked at the one in her hand, and picked up another, some of these fragments are very dirty, and they have been damaged for a long time, but most of the fractures are very clean, and they should have been broken for a long time.

"Come and see this!" Pei Xia's train of thought was suddenly interrupted by Mu Changan, she looked at Mu Changan, only to see that Mu Changan didn't know what he had picked up, Pei Xia stepped forward and saw that it was a pearl earring, and the hook of the earring was almost full of dried blood.

"Where did you pick this up?" Pei Xia remembered that there was no injury to Yin Chuan's ear piercing during the autopsy, judging from the blood stains on this earring, most of them were torn off the ear by life, and the wound should be obvious.

"It's on the ground over there." Mu Changan's tone of voice unconsciously brought a little pleasure, the long-term medication in the past two years has made his health much worse, and he has been investigating the case with Pei Xia for two days, and it is quite unbearable to rush. Despite his physical weakness, he was in a much better mood than when he was in the palace, especially since he might have found a key piece of physical evidence, and a subtle sense of accomplishment swelled in his heart for a few years.

Sensing his thoughts, Mu Changan shook his head in his heart. Heh, I've been in this small place for a long time, and I have to be proud of even such a little thing, but it's really getting more and more useless.

Not far away, Pei Xia was still carefully inspecting every place in the ruined temple. Mu Changan stared at her back for a while, and for a moment suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with this, find an interesting person, do something interesting together, don't care about those flies and dogs who can't see the light, and be an idle prince for the rest of your life......

"What are you doing here?" A man at the gate of the ruined temple asked with a probe in his head, looking like a nearby hunter.

"We are investigated by the government." Pei Xia walked over and showed the county government token: "May I ask if there are usually people living here?" ”

"Yes, there's a leper beggar. Did he do something? Orion asked.

"It's not certain yet, we have something to ask him, do you know where he is now?"

The Orion patted his chest and said, "You are asking the right question, I have nothing I don't know about this matter." That beggar used to go to the county town to beg during the day, and I said that he suddenly stopped going for the past two days, and stayed in the cave in the mountain every day, which turned out to be a crime! ”

Pei Xia asked the hunter to lead the way to find the leper beggar, and when he turned around, he saw Mu Changan still standing aside.

"Let's go, what do you want?" Xu is case finally made progress, and Pei Xia's mood relaxed a lot, and he actually stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Mu Changan.

Mu Changan came back to his senses and glanced at Pei Xia with a complicated expression, Pei Xia was shocked that with her identity, such a move was really disrespectful, so he hurriedly withdrew his hand, pretended that nothing had happened, and ran to the front to chase the hunter.

Although Pei Xia ran fast, Mu Changan still saw a touch of crimson from her ears with sharp eyes.

This girl is really ...... A smile appeared in Mu Changan's eyes, but he didn't know what he remembered, and after a while, his smiling eyes slowly cooled again.

May you and I be on the same path.

"I went into the city that day to sell goods, and I didn't come back until the evening." That Orion was very talkative, and he answered all questions to Pei Xia along the way, "If you want to say who you meet...... I seem to have heard a woman crying inside when I passed by the ruined temple that day, and the black light was blinding and the fire was seeping, and I didn't look closely, so I looked at the door and left without seeing anyone. ”

While speaking, Orion had already brought Pei Xia and Mu Changan to the cave, this cave was not deep, and the weeds at the entrance of the cave could be seen inside at a glance. The leper beggar was really there, and when he saw someone coming, he jumped up and was about to run out, but Orion quickly threw him down and pressed him, turned over and rode on him, and said in his mouth: "How can you only have a boy and a girl to investigate the case, but fortunately I met me, am I doing things for the government?" Is there a bounty? ”

Pei Xia was silent, Mu Changan had no choice but to take the initiative to be the boss of this wrong, and gave the Orion a tael of silver, and the Orion was very happy, and worked hard to tie up the leper and push it out.

"It's not me, it's not me! I didn't kill anyone, I really didn't kill anyone! Before Pei Xia could ask, the leper beggar panicked first and shouted desperately.

"What are you running away from without killing anyone!" The Orion kicked the leper beggar, and the leper beggar was in pain and cried out.

"Okay, we have our own judgment on whether you killed the person or not, you can tell me what is going on first." Pei Xia stopped the Orion and asked the leper beggar.

The leper beggar said that when he returned from begging in the city that day, he felt itching on his body, so he went to the river to take a bath, and when he returned to the ruined temple, it was too late. As soon as he entered the temple, he saw that the offering table where he often slept was overturned to the ground, and the clay statue that was originally broken was all shattered, and the most terrible thing was that there was a woman hanging on the beam.

"I was really frightened at the time, how can I explain this if the government investigates! I really didn't kill it! The leper beggar argued.

"And then? What do you do with the corpse when you find it? Pei Xia continued to ask.

"I ...... I dragged her into the city and threw her at the door of the Fuyuan Inn. ”

"Why did you throw it at the door of the Fuyuan Inn?"

"Because I went to beg during the day and was scolded by the owner of the Fuyuan Inn, I was angry in my heart, so I wanted to take revenge on him...... I'm damned, I've done bad things, but I'm not killing anyone! Two adults Mingjian, I really didn't kill anyone! ”

"The city gate should have been closed at that time, how did you drag the corpse into the city?"

"I put her in a sack...... There was a dog hole in the wall at the southern corner of the city, and it was from there that I—I climbed into. ”

Pei Xia turned his head and asked Orion, "Do you know the dog hole he said?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Orion nodded.

"Do you know more?"

"It's not a little, everyone who lives in our area knows it. The hole used to be small enough for cats and dogs to get in and out, but it got bigger and bigger, and even thinner people could get through. ”

"There is such a big hole in the city wall, didn't the county send someone to repair it?" Mu Changan frowned, having such a big cave city wall was simply useless, and it was a major dereliction of duty for the county's guards.

The Orion sneered: "It's not that everyone doesn't want the officials to know, this in and out, in case something delays the time one day, if you want to enter or leave the city, you have to give a lot of money to the officials who guard the door......"

After asking the leper beggar, Pei Xia asked the hunter to help go to the county government to call two officials to escort the person to the county government jail, and after handing over the prisoner, he went to the dog hole that the leper beggar said.

The dog's cave was covered with a wooden plank on one side outside the city, and the other side was filled with a few bricks, and Pei Xia took a stick and poked it, and the bricks fell down with a gurgling sound.

"Miss Pei, don't you still want to drill this dog hole?" Mu Changan was surprised when he saw Pei Xia squatting at the entrance of the cave and looking in, half of his body was about to lie in.

"You can't bother Your Highness to climb down." Pei Xia's voice came from inside, the urn, she didn't really crawl over, but looked around the hole and found a small piece hanging from the cave wall

Rags.

"This is ......," Mu Changan took the cloth in Pei Xia's hand and looked at it carefully.

"The blue cloud brocade of the lake, ordinary hunters and peddlers can't afford to wear this, it is very likely that it is the murderer, who is going to ask the shopkeeper of the silk village."