On the street of Confucius Temple, it was a lot deserted, and at the door of the Treasure Pavilion, there were no more people around, only two guards were guarding the door, Tie Lingshuang walked into the store with a confused Qi Chen, and saw Liu Yishui shaking his head and sighing, Qi Chen's eyebrows raised,

"Uncle, why are you here?"

"Your uncle and I are a man, this is a murder, of course it will be. ”

Regardless of the two of them, Tie Lingshuang stepped forward with a gloomy face and looked at the shopkeeper who was still sitting on the chair.

Still dressed as a literati, his eyes are slightly narrowed, his mouth is half open, with a hint of a smile, his right hand holds a fan, the fan is open and close to his stomach, his left hand is pressed against the fan, and he is holding a stone in his hand.

The blue-gray stone is carved with a crane, and the crane hangs its head, holding its head, as if sleeping.

The cold light flashed in his eyes, this stone carving, four inches long, no matter how you look at it, it is a stone carving next to the second spring on Jubao Mountain in the morning, Tie Lingshuang remembered that pair of blue eyes, the iron gun in his hand froze, and turned his head to look at Liu Yishui who came up,

"How did you die?"

Sighing, Liu Yishui walked across from the shopkeeper, squatted down, and pointed to his slightly open mouth.

"It should be a slender sword, and when he is about to speak with a long mouth, it will be pierced in an instant. ”

As he spoke, he straightened up and pointed to the back of the shopkeeper's neck.

"Cut off the spine bone directly from the inside, and the person will not be able to move immediately, and then slowly die. The sword did not come out from behind, and there was very little blood, all flowing into the throat, this is a master. ”

withdrew his hand and stared at the shopkeeper's face, which was already turning blue,

"My little yellow dog was bought from him two days ago, and he is very good at talking, so why did he die, alas. ”

Qi Chen, who was gathered on the side, scratched his head and asked Tie Lingshuang beside him,

"The man with the sword?"

Nodding, Tie Lingshuang glanced around, there was no trace of any mess elsewhere, walked to the door, and looked at the half of the couplet on the left.

Flowers, birds, fish and insects are here, flowers, birds, fish and insects are gone, and only the three words "here" are left.

Why did the man with the sword come to kill the shopkeeper? Just because he leaked the news?

No, this news is obviously a signal from them, allowing them to track down Jubaoshan, it is impossible to use a killer because of this, nor because of money or something, these people will not care about those dozens of taels.

Besides, just kill someone, what does it have to do with the four words flowers, birds, insects and fish?

Frowning slightly, Tie Lingshuang pondered the four words of flowers, birds, fish and insects, in the bazaar, selling kittens and dogs, parrots and yellow finch, goldfish and turtles, plus flowers and plants, usually called flowers, birds, insects and fish.

In "Dismantling of Ancient Characters", flowers refer to flowers and trees, birds can fly, fish swim in the water, insects crawl on the ground, and flowers, birds, fish and insects are basically all things in the world.

His eyes swept to the crane-shaped stone sculpture in the shopkeeper's hand, and the light in his eyes flickered, recalling the demons he had encountered in Jinling City recently.

The red lotus is a flower, the black Jiao is a worm, if the blue crane is a bird, the whale is a fish, is that so?

If so, what does that have to do with this person? Is it necessary to kill? Just trying to provoke yourself?

"What kind of hatred can a person who does business have such a deep hatred, such a hate! ”

The voice came from inside, Tie Lingshuang suppressed the doubts in his heart, and walked into the door, Qi Chen was scanning around, Liu Yishui was on the right side while looking at the jade antiques on the shelf, shaking his head and sighing.

Seeing Tie Lingshuang coming in, Qi Chen retracted his gaze, stepped forward and asked softly,

"What does this have to do with another drop of blood?"

walked to the shopkeeper, looked at the crane stone carving in his hand, and shook his head,

"Maybe it's the sword that kills at will, interfering with us tracking the whereabouts of that drop of essence blood, the clues here, usable, are the stone carvings in this hand, and the flowers, birds, fish and insects. ”

While the two were talking, a person rushed in outside, dressed in brocade clothes, panting, holding a dossier, Tie Lingshuang looked up, only to see him running to Liu Yishui's side and handing him the dossier.

Liu Yishui took it easily, didn't open it, and handed the file to Tie Lingshuang,

"Seeing you coming, I knew that things were not simple, so I asked this brother to go to Yingtianfu Ya to retrieve the file of this shopkeeper. ”

The corners of his mouth raised, Tie Lingshuang took the dossier, and said with appreciation,

"Yes, much more reliable than your nephew. ”

Qi Chen on the side raised his eyebrows and glared, and he didn't look at Tie Lingshuang, just stared at his uncle who was smiling, and he was about to get angry, but suddenly remembered the little frog that was snatched away, his face kept changing, red and green, and finally he could only bow his head and endure it, the tiger's eyes were angry and murderous.

Confucius Temple Gongyuan Street A No. 47, Treasure Pavilion, built in the first year of Yongle, the owner of Zheng's three views, the owner of Zhou's Yunhe. Sell jade antiques, flowers and birds.

Zheng Sanguan, whose ancestral home is Yingtianfu, was born in Hongwu for three years, his father and ancestors started as a horse seller, and was the owner of a shop at No. 34 to A 76 on Gongyuan Street. Lives in the sixth house of Wuyi Lane. The sister of the Zheng family, the wife of Sun Ting, the guard of the Qilin Gate.

Zhou Yunhe, whose ancestral home is Huai'an, Jiangsu, was born in the first year of Hongwu, and his original wife Shen died early and had no children.

Should be admitted to Jinling, the third is not in the middle, from business, Yongle two years, rent Gongyuan Street No. 47, changed to Treasure Pavilion.

Flipping through the following pages of business tax payment records, Tie Lingshuang closed the file, turned around and handed it to Qi Chen, who was still bowing his head and angry, and closed his eyes and pondered.

There is very little information, there is nothing available, there is no grudge, and there is no trace of information related to immortals, so the shopkeeper Zheng Sanguan and the Qilin Gate guard Sun Ting, it seems that there is no need to ask again.

Opening his eyes, Tie Lingshuang pointed to Zhou Yunhe and said to Liu Yishui,

"Take off his clothes, and look at the marks on his body, and check the inside of his hair. ”

Looking up at Tie Lingshuang, Qi Chen frowned, closed the file, and together with Liu Yishui, moved Zhou Yunhe off the chair.

After being dead for about two hours, his body had begun to stiffen, Zhou Yunhe, who was lying on the ground, had his feet cocked, and Qi Chen was about to take off his clothes, when a person at the door was about to break in, shouting, and was stopped outside by the guards.

The three of them looked out of the door and saw a man of thirty-seven or eighteen years old, with a fat head and big ears, a blood-red face, disheveled clothes, and an anxious and angry face.

"Let me in, I'm the owner!

Tie Lingshuang motioned for him to come in, the guard withdrew his hand, the man rushed in, the smell of wine overflowed, and when he saw Zhou Yunhe lying on the ground with his feet up, he was angry,

"Fuck, how can you bastard die in my room, how can I rent it out after this!"

frowned and looked at this drunken man scolding, the iron gun in his hand slammed to the ground, the floor was shattered, the smoke and dust were scattered, and he stared at him coldly,

"Are you Zheng Sanguan?"

"My floor, you, you"

Zheng Sanguan, who had a fat head and big ears, stretched out his fat hand and pointed at Tie Lingshuang, you have been for a long time, glanced up and down, and looked at a big man next to her, staring at herself with bad intentions, her fingers trembled for a long time, she hated it back, and shouted unkindly,

"I'm Zheng Sanguan, my brother-in-law is a general, this is my house, who are you?"

With a soft sound on his waist, Tie Lingshuang raised his eyebrows, turned his head to look at Qi Chen, and watched him look down and touch the bronze smoke ball on his waist, the corners of his mouth raised, squinting at the person in front of him, and pointing to the bench,

"Go and sit down there and answer the questions honestly, otherwise your brother-in-law is the current emperor and will not be able to save you. ”

As soon as the words fell, the two Jinyi guards in the door looked at each other and glanced at Tie Lingshuang, although our Jinyi Wei has been famous since the Hongwu period, but no matter how much power is given by the emperor, I have never seen such a rampant colleague.

Zheng Sanguan, whose ancestors had been mixed in Jinling City for several generations, was also dumbfounded, and was about to grit his teeth and say a few hard words, Qi Chen shook his head, pulled him and pressed him on the chair.

Zheng Sanguan looked down just in time to see Zhou Yunhe's gradually blue face, his fat trembled, and he was about to stand up, Qi Chen exerted force in his hands, and comforted in his mouth,

"Fat brother, don't mess with this, otherwise no one will be able to save you. ”

The iron gun slammed to the ground, and another piece of blue and white floor was shattered, Tie Lingshuang looked at Zheng Sanguan, who was much more honest,

"Where's your home?"

couldn't break free, looking at Qi Chen, who was five big and three thick beside him, the bronze waist card on his waist in seconds, the three big characters of Jinyiwei went straight into the hearts of the people, the cold sweat broke out on his back, and the wine was slightly relieved, he was worthy of being a rich man under the Jinling Imperial City, Zheng Sanguan was flustered for a while, and he no longer struggled,

"Wuyi Lane. ”

Nodding slightly, Tie Lingshuang looked at his forehead full of beads of sweat, smelling of wine, frowned and asked,

"Wuyi Lane is just one street away, where did you come from after all this time?"

Wiping the beads of sweat on his head, Zheng Sanguan swallowed his saliva and whispered back,

"Purple Air Building. ”

Seeing Tie Lingshuang squinting his phoenix eyes, quite impatient, Qi Chen shook Zheng Sanguan,

"Let's be careful, where is the Purple Qi Building? With whom?"

The two of them threatened one with a dog's leg, Liu Yishui watched happily from the side, asked for a quarter of an hour, and looked at the dry mouth that Zheng Sanguan said, and finally had a context.

Ancestral horse sales, the Zheng family started very fast, this generation of Zheng family's only daughter married a six-grade Duwei, hitched a ride on the road of military horses, the family business is getting bigger and bigger, and the idea of a herd of horses is hit.

The royal horse farm at the foot of Zhongshan is flat and wide, the water and grass are abundant, and ten thousand horses can gallop, so it is also called the horse herd.

Today, I was at the Ziqi Building near the horse herd to entertain my brother-in-law and the guard of the Crane Gate, just to sell my horses to the royal horse farm.

Cheng Kaishan, the guard of Xianhemen, belongs to the five military camps, and is an old subordinate brought by the current Yongle Emperor from Shuntian, Beijing.

Halfway through the meal, the family whispered that there was a murder in the shop on the street, and they had also seen some scenes, so they accompanied their brother-in-law and Cheng Kaishan to finish eating and drinking, and sent them to the Qinglou opposite the Ziqi Building, and then hurried to this side.

Sneered, Tie Lingshuang looked at Cheng Kaishan, who was fat-headed and big-eared, and didn't see that this person still had some thoughts, motioned for Qi Chen to let him go, and said to Liu Yishui,

"Take him to the backyard and check him on his body, on the top of his head, in his mouth, and under his feet, to see if there are any special marks. ”

Seeing Liu Yishui pulling Zheng Sanguan with a stiff face with a smile, and whispering a few words in his ear, Zheng Sanguan's eyebrows trembled, glanced at Tie Lingshuang, and then reluctantly stood up and followed Liu Yishui to the back.

Signaling the two brocade guards at the door to carry Zhou Yunhe to the backyard as well, the two walked to the pile of flowers and plants, Qi Chen asked in a low voice,

"What happened to that little bird just now?"

"There was a soft sound, and there was a demonic aura. ”

With a frown of eyebrows, Qi Chen held the hilt of the sword tightly, glanced in the direction of the backyard, and whispered,

"Isn't this fat man a monster?

As he spoke, he was about to run to the backyard, Tie Lingshuang reached out and grabbed him, shaking his head,

"He's not a demon, his breath is very light, it seems that he has been in contact. ”

"So how do we check? Go to their house?"

nodded, thought of the couplet, and said to Qi Chen,

"Two things, one is to follow the line of Zheng Sanguan that happened to pop up to check the whereabouts of the monster, but I don't know if it's a monster near the drop of essence blood. ”

Seeing Qi Chen bowing his head and pondering, Tie Lingshuang continued,

"There is one more thing, that is, the couplet at the door, there are four words missing, flowers, birds, fish and insects, this line needs to be checked, but there is no clue at present, we will go back to the black cage to check the information. ”

Nodding, Qi Chen patted the long sword on his waist,

"Hmph, there is no good or evil in the hearts of these people, whether it is the chosen immortal heir or not, the little frog is with them, and life and death are unpredictable. ”