He Zhenfu also began to reply: "My lord, after Xia Yuanji, the scholar who found the body, returned to the house, there was nothing abnormal, and he quickly fell asleep. ”

Han Changdui sneered: "Seeing such a terrifying scene, he can still sleep, so how frightened he was at that time, wasn't he pretending?" ”

He Zhenfu nodded and said: "Yes, when Fang Cai interrogated Xia Yuanji, he found that he answered smoothly and had no loopholes, but it seemed to be a statement that had already been thought of, and his eyes were erratic, and he always lowered his head and did not dare to look at people, and he was not as calm as he said, so he left people to stare at him." ”

Han Changwan nodded with satisfaction: "Has the other shoe been salvaged?" ”

He Zhenfu shook his head and showed a strange look on his face: "Not yet, it's strange to say, the forbidden army didn't find anything in the latrine, let alone the shoe that the deceased Li Cheng lost." ”

Han Changdu's heart moved, and he raised his head in surprise: "Didn't find another shoe?" ”

He Zhenfu nodded and said, "The humble post has already ordered the forbidden army to salvage a few other squatting pits." ”

Han Changwan nodded appreciatively, and he didn't know what he thought, so he suddenly asked: "The scholar who found the body is from the water name, and the deceased is from the sky number, right?" ”

He Zhenfu nodded.

Han Changwan took out the map of the Gongyuan from under the bookcase, his eyes fell on the west side of the house, and he found the water number and the sky number in the dense number house.

He looked at the two houses that couldn't be beaten by eight poles, and frowned slightly.

The deceased died in the deepest part of the latrine, and this person abandoned the outer squatting pits and went to the innermost part, thus finding the deceased.

He didn't believe there was such a coincidence.

At this time, Yao Qi had also finished checking the things in the deceased Li Cheng's examination basket, which were just some pen, ink, paper, inkstones, and dry food, which were arranged into small pieces, and there was nothing suspicious.

She began to check the contents of the baggage, which was very simple, but a light gray skin, a rabbit fur hand-copied, and a pouch.

She looked at these three things scrutinously and sighed softly.

Han Changdui walked over quickly and asked, "What's wrong, is there any problem?" ”

Yao Qi held the goose-yellow pouch, embroidered a green bamboo with a horizontal slope on the front, and embroidered a faint cloud pattern on the back with slightly darker yellow silk thread.

The whole pouch is single-layered, and there is no handwriting, which fully meets the requirements of the provincial test, and the pouch is not very exquisite, but it is better than the stitches are fine and skillful, and the embroidery and color matching are elegant, and it looks like the kind that ordinary scholars often love to use.

But Yao Qi turned the pouch over, revealing the inner bottom of the pouch, and a four-petal plum blossom was embroidered on it.

If a person who doesn't know his past love sees this pattern, he will only think that this bag was given by someone, so he will embroider a small mark, and he will not feel that there is anything abnormal.

But along the way, Han Changdui and Yao Qi have seen this pattern many times, and even Yao Qi still has this mark on his body, like a tarsal bone.

The two looked at each other in amazement.

They all knew very well what this mark represented, and they never expected that the power of the dark tide was so huge that it had already penetrated into the scholars and into the spring festival.

Yao Ji handed the pouch to the tip of Han Changdu's nose and said lightly, "My lord, smell it." ”

There seems to be a faint dark fragrance, the aroma is not strong, just a faint wisp, but extremely clear, only a light smell, it is extraordinarily refreshing, it is a good product to remove the odor.

Han Changdui blinked: "This is, the smell of incense tablets mixed with night incense." ”

Yao Qi nodded, and a dark light flashed in his eyes: "Ordinary people's incense tablets don't add night incense, after all, this thing is too expensive, you can smell the smell in this bag, there used to be a lot of incense pieces in it, this Li Cheng's family background is not noble, it's just an ordinary villager's family, where did he get the night incense tablets worth a thousand gold, and they ran out all at once, so what should he do with the provincial test in the remaining days, and besides, before entering, how did he know that he would definitely be assigned to the, So as to prepare so many night incense tablets in advance. ”

"Unless," Han Changdu's expression was awe-inspiring, and his words were cold: "Unless this incense piece was not prepared by him for fear of getting a, but with other plans." ”

When He Zhenfu heard this, he was stunned for a moment and narrowed his eyes: "My lord, could this person go to the toilet to find something?" ”

Han Changdui's face changed slightly: "He Zongqi, you go and send a message to the Beiya Forbidden Army to salvage all the filth in the latrine." ”

He Zhenfu also looked stunned and hurriedly arranged it.

Yao Qi pinched the pouch and muttered thoughtfully: "If he was looking for something, how did he know that there was something in that place, what it was, and there was nothing else hidden on him, or that thing had been taken away by the murderer?" ”

Han Changwan pinched his eyebrows: "If he is entrusted by someone, I am afraid that the person who entrusted him does not want him to live at all." ”

Yao Qi pursed his lips: "Could it be that the thing was taken away by Xia Yuanji?" ”

Han Changwan pinched his eyebrows for a long time, there were a few more faint wrinkles between his eyebrows, and said lightly: "Go and examine the body again, and see what you find?" ”

The staircase is long, the corridor is deep, and people creak on the wooden steps.

The morgue's room was next to the barn where the invalid exam papers were kept, and there were also two guards at the door.

Han Changwan and the others pushed the door in, and a faint dust hit their faces.

At this time, the ice had not yet been sent in, and he did not dare to open the window for ventilation, for fear of attracting someone to do anything on the corpse, and the smell in the room would inevitably be a little unpleasant.

There was a lamp burning in the room, and it was slightly dim.

Yao Qi stepped forward quickly, lit a few more lights, and the room suddenly lit up.

Standing in the room, across a barn, you can still hear the noise coming from the official room, and the whining voice is very clear.

Anyone who is dragged out of the bed in the middle of the night, and has to go to the public hall in disheveled clothes, will not have a good temper.

Han Changdui and Yao Qi glanced at each other helplessly, squatted down, and began to check the situation of the corpse.

An hour and a half had passed since the body was found and moved to this barn, and the body had cooled down, and its face, neck, hands and feet had begun to stiffen, and its back and neck had purple-red cloud-like patches.

Han Changdui opened the deceased's mouth, but did not find any traces of the incense pieces in his mouth, and was slightly stunned, turning his head to carefully examine the strangulation marks on the deceased's neck and the small bruise on his back.

And Yao Ji's eyes fell on the royal blue robe on the deceased's body, this dress was ordinary in terms of material workmanship, and there was no special belt on the waist, but a sweat towel slightly darker than the color of the clothes.

Belt, belt, Yao Qi's eyes lit up and he looked at Han Changdu.

Without waiting for Yao Qi to speak, Han Changwei had already thought of something, and spit out two words with a smile: "Come here." ”

Yao Qi was stunned for a moment, feeling that the smile on Han Changdu's cold face, coupled with the flickering dim candle flame next to him, always had such a gloomy and sympathetic meaning.

She hesitated, refusing to step forward.

Han Changwan smiled again: "Can I still eat you?" ”

Yao Qi pursed his lips, why was he so panicked when he said such things in such a place?

She was heartbroken, and there was no way to retreat anyway, so she simply walked over to see what bad water he was holding.

She stiffened her head and walked slowly in front of Han Changdu.

Han Changdui walked behind Yao Qi with a smile, wrapped his arm around her chin, strangled her neck, grabbed the arm of the other hand, and then the empty hand pressed against the back of her head.

Although he hadn't exerted his strength yet, the feeling of near-death suffocation still frightened Yao Qi.

She involuntarily grabbed Han Changdu's arm with both hands, and used all her strength to pull his arm off.

She struggled and trembled so hard that even her feet made a thumping sound on the ground.

Just when she almost scolded at a sharp end, Han Changdui suddenly let go of her hand.

Yao Qi staggered forward two steps, turned around, clutched his throat and scolded angrily: "Are you sick? ”

Han Changwan raised his eyebrows disapprerovingly, rubbed his sleeves with two fingers as if unintentionally, and raised his chin towards the waist and back of the corpse: "The bruises here should be traces left by the ornaments on the murderer's belt." ”

"Being strangled like this does not leave fingerprints." Yao Ji snorted and sneered lightly: "But even so, there are more people with ornaments on their belts, and if adults want to check in this direction, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack." ”

Han Changwan smiled lightly, listened to the noisy complaints not far away, and squinted his eyes: "If you look for a needle in a haystack, you have to fish, it's better to go to the public office to check first." ”

Yao Ji is an obedient person, so naturally there is nothing to do.

Han Changdui walked in front, listening to the sound of footsteps behind him, and his heart couldn't help but feel a little trance.

He recalled the scene when he held Yao Qi in his arms, and remembered the faint fragrance wafting past the tip of his nose.

He couldn't help but laugh dumbly, shook his head, and felt that he must be dizzy, such an intertwined and difficult case was in the way, and he still had the heart to think about this.

He came back to his senses very quickly, saw the Jiang Shen and a few people coming towards him, and hurriedly looked solemn, and stepped forward to salute: "Ge Lao." ”

Jiang Shen's spirit was not very good, with a thick tired look on his face, but his eyes were still as sharp as before, he was not surprised to meet Han Changdui here, raised his hand and said: "Let's go in together, Jiuchao can also see if there are any suspicions." ”

Han Changwan responded respectfully and followed Jiang Shen into the public hall.