Chapter 142: The Secret Door
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"Yue Chuan was a senator of the 3,000 battalion before, and when the East Window incident of the embezzlement of ink military salaries occurred, he was not found on his head, but later he was indeed reported to Dali Temple and provided verifiable evidence, which pulled Yue Chuan off the horse." Pan Gongzi sighed, "But who reported it, I need someone to ask." โ
It seems that this rumor does have a high degree of credibility. I nodded, remembering another incident: "There is an immortal temple in the south of Jinling City, and there is an immortal pagoda in the temple, does Pan Gongzi know?" โ
"I've heard of it. However, because Changsheng Temple is a royal temple of the previous dynasty, I have not been to it because of my status. โ
I expressed my understanding: Pan Gongzi, as an imperial prince, will only provoke criticism for himself when he goes to the temple of the previous dynasty, "I just want to know whether the immortal pagoda has fallen." โ
"It's poured, no......" Pan Gongzi was amused by my rather childish question, "You...... Dig into the corner of the wall? โ
Me: "......"
Farewell to Pan Gongzi and returned home, but was robbed at the door by a sweaty A Nuan, and said that another person dressed as an official came to me, and he was sitting in the front hall at the moment.
Li Lei is here? I glanced into the front hall, and saw Ah Nuan staring at me with a worried look, as if to say what trouble did you make again, so that the officials came to you again and again?
Eldest sister, I couldn't cry or laugh, and dared to love me for this image in Ah Nuan's mind, "An, he's not here to arrest me." I had to pat Ah Nuan's hand, and thought to myself, if you knew that a brocade guard often came to me in the middle of the night, what kind of story would be made up in his little head.
Thinking of a certain brocade guard, my eyes suddenly darkened, but I could only sigh secretly, slipped back to the room from the side corridor, changed into men's clothes and went to the front hall.
Unexpectedly, it was not Li Lei who was waiting for me, but another catcher under him.
"Leng Gongzi, you're back!" This black-faced catcher is an impatient, and he took two steps forward and pulled me out and walked out, "Our Li Tou'er has explained, let me take you to Sweetwater Lane as soon as possible!" โ
I was pulled by him and almost fell, and I was quite dissatisfied in my heart: "What is so urgent?" โ
"Female ghost! The fourth! โ
In the depths of Sweetwater Lane, there is a small mansion, with green walls and many vines and roses, which looks quite quiet and elegant, and is inexplicably comfortable and pleasant.
It's just that at this time, in the bedroom of this mansion, there is a long-dead male corpse, which is not so pleasant.
Xu is girl, I have seen too many hideous and terrifying deaths recently, and I have heard too many weird and terrifying stories, and my psychological endurance has improved by leaps and bounds, and I am not surprised by such a "gentle and peaceful" death, just step into the door, but I found that the deceased was lying naked on the bed, so I stopped my steps again, and asked Li Lei, who was busy checking the scene, and said, "Who is the deceased?" โ
"It's not clear." Li Lei's face was solemn, he didn't care about being polite to me, and replied while looking down to check: "A middle-aged man, in his forties, has the smell of alcohol in his mouth, and his body is ......."
Seeing his bitter gourd face wrinkled as he spoke, I simply said it for him: "No fatal injuries, no signs of poisoning." โ
Li Lei nodded, and then covered his face in frustration: "Young Master Leng what can I do?" Female ghosts one after another, murder cases one after another, now the rumors up and down Jinling City are panicking, Lord Yin gave me a death order, limited me to solve the case within ten days, but now I can't find any useful clues, I ......"
Seeing that he looked like he was about to cry, I had to pat him on the shoulder and comfort: "Don't worry, the more murderers commit crimes, the easier it is to show flaws." Maybe all we need is a key clue to connect this mystery case, and the real murderer behind the scenes will be caught. โ
Li Lei nodded, forcibly controlled his emotions, and instructed his subordinates to quickly wrap the corpse and bring it back to Tianfu for inspection.
I took the opportunity to look around and realized that this was a woman's boudoir, "Doesn't it mean that there is another female ghost, human?" โ
"The female ghost is not here, she is crazy in the middle of the night...... After killing the man, he ran out, and on the way he bit a watchman who was beating the guard. Li Lei rubbed his temples vigorously, "The corpse was found by the moat five miles away this morning. โ
"So, this mansion is the home of dead men and women?"
"It's not." Li Lei's voice was really hoarse, he cleared his throat a few times, and finally called a young catcher under him dejectedly, "Jinzi, tell Leng Gongzi in detail about the confession you just asked this old woman and Yahuan, I ...... Go outside and take a look. โ
I looked at Li Lei's very tired and depressed figure with great sympathy, and Jin Zi Catcher on the side called his junior brother to pour a bowl of tea for Li Zhutou with great eyes, and then turned to me seriously: "Leng Gongzi, look up for a long time!" โ
I bowed my head and signaled that I didn't need to be polite: "Please tell me what I have learned." โ
"Okay, let's answer Childe's question first, this mansion is the home of the crazy woman, but not the dead man."
I was a little surprised: it wasn't his house, he was lying here naked, could it be......
"The crazy woman's name is Ji Liusu, twenty-one years old."
I glanced at the guqin that fell to the ground not far away: "Won't it be the daughter of a declining official eunuch again?" โ
"Not really. This Ji tassel is the daughter of a ruffian and a maid of a large family in Jinling City, and it is also a bitter fate, and she grew up to fifteen years old with such a father, and her gambler father owed a lot of debts, and sold her ruthlessly in order to repay the money.
First, she sold her to Ya Po, and when she saw that she was born with a beautiful appearance and a graceful body, she sold her to the Faculty Division. โ
It's the Teaching Department again, and I silently drew a key point in my heart, "Then how did she come out of the Teaching Division?" โ
"Don't worry, Childe, I'll talk about this right away." This Jin Zhukuai has a talent for storytelling, "It is said that when Ji Tassel was a kabuki in the Jiaofang Division, he hooked up with a wealthy businessman in Jinling, and after a few exchanges, the Qian master liked her very much, so he spent money to ransom her out of the Jiaofang Division. But in view of the fact that his wife, Mrs. Qian, had a fiery temper, Master Qian didn't dare to bring Ji Tassel home, so he set up a separate courtyard for her here in Sweet Water Lane, and kept it as an outer room from his wife.
Ji Liusu followed Master Qian for two years, but unfortunately the good times did not last long, and Master Qian died of a sudden illness. When he died, Ji Liusu had no support, and only left this house, so he took her wife to live with him, and returned to his old business in order to make a living, and did a secret door. โ
I was a little puzzled: "What is a secret door?" โ
"It's a secret prostitute."
"Oh...... "It's not surprising that there is a naked man lying on the bed, "In other words, the dead man is Ji Tassel's benefactor?" โ
"It should be." Jin Zhukuai showed a meaningful expression on his face, "I just went to interrogate Ji Liusu and her mother, this old woman not only connived at her daughter's skin and meat business, but also helped to do some things to usher in the delivery, and she is quite familiar with Ji Liusu's benefactor, but according to what she said, this dead man, she has not seen it before, and she doesn't know when he came, I think it should be late last night, she has fallen asleep, and then came to find Ji Liusu, so she didn't notice it." โ
"In other words, there were no witnesses to the whole incident." I banged my fist on the table with some frustration.
Jin Zhu blinked: "What is an eyewitness?" โ
I didn't bother to help him explain the noun at this time, and waved my hand to show that it didn't matter, "So, what about after Ji Tassel went crazy?" I glanced at the overturned lamp on the bedroom table again, and the ground was in a mess, "There is such a big commotion, Ji Liusu and her mother can't hear it, right?" โ
"I also asked, her mother said, about the fourth watch, first faintly heard music outside the window, it seemed to be a flute or flute or something, but he didn't pay much attention. Some vassal and elegant benefactors, in the middle of the night, let Ji Liusu play a piano and sing a song or something, so her mother just scolded 'coquettish' and continued to sleep.
After sleeping for a while, she heard the clanging sound in Ji Tassel's room, and there was a wail that was not like a human voice, her mother was worried that Ji Tassel would suffer, so she woke up the maid and got up to take a look, which was terrifying! Then she saw her daughter, with her hair disheveled and her face covered with blood, rushing out of the house like a ghost! โ
"Her wife and maid weren't attacked by Ji Liusu?"
"It's really not, her mother has recently heard about the haunted female ghost in Jinling City, and suddenly saw that her daughter has become such an evil upper body, so frightened that she turned around and fled, in a blink of an eye, she saw that Ji Liusu had run out of the house, and then looked at her room, there was a man lying out of breath, her mother was also so frightened that she almost lost her breath, and quickly asked the maid to find the chief who lived at the mouth of the alley, and reported to Ying Tianfu at dawn."
After listening to Jin Zhu's storytelling, I carefully inspected the room in Ji Tassel before I went out to find Li Lei.
Li Lei was standing in the courtyard with his hands on his head, staring at a pair of round eyes with red bloodshots, and I suddenly patted him on the shoulder, and he actually reacted with a stirring spirit, a typical overwork.
"Oh, Leng Gongzi, what clues have you found?"
Seeing that I shook my head helplessly, Li Lei's pair of copper bell eyes that had just ignited some light quickly dimmed, and the loveless expression on his face made me very worried that he would draw a knife and wipe his neck every minute.
"It's not all gratuitous." I quickly changed my tune and pulled him to sit down on a stone bench in the courtyard, "I found a suspicious point: how did you say, how did the man die?" โ
Li Lei was stunned by my question, "There are two bite marks on the body, which should have been left after Ji Tassel went crazy, but they didn't bite in a fatal place, and other than that, there are really no wounds...... Could it be that he was scared to death again? At this point, he himself felt a little incredible, and laughed self-deprecatingly.