Although Liu Mingxiu's voice was not loud, it was very majestic, and the slaves and maids who came out of the Taishi Mansion such as Bai Lan were also frightened, and she knelt on the ground with a "poof", emphasizing: "The slaves and maids are true." ”

"I bought it on the street the day before yesterday, but—"

She glanced at Meng Wei tremblingly, at this time Meng Wei had already put away the idea of playing, and looked at her with her hands down, Bai Lan understood that if she didn't explain, she would definitely affect her master, so she had to tell the matter: "The day before yesterday, the slave maid went to the market, only to know that the Baochai Fang was robbed, and the official uniform issued a seal to seal the storefront, but the aunt told the slave maid to ask for the latest hairpin of the Baochai Fang, and the slave didn't dare to return empty-handed, so she had to ask around, and finally bought this hairpin at a high price from a man. ”

"You, how dare you buy a hairpin to fool me?"

Meng Wei gritted her teeth angrily, only to feel that the hairpin that she had worn for so long had made her a laughing stock, and a wave of anger rose, and she raised her hand to hit Bai Lan.

"That's enough." Liu Mingxiu stopped and continued to ask Bai Lan, "Where is the person who sold your hairpin?" ”

"The slave didn't know, but she bought it in a dark, dark market."

The more Bai Lan spoke, the quieter his voice became, and in the end his head was already very low.

Meng Wei almost didn't mention it in a breath, thinking that she had bought things in the dark market because she was the second daughter of the dignified Taishi Mansion, if such a shame was spread, wouldn't it make people laugh off their big teeth.

The hairpin was in Liu Mingxiu's hand, he observed it repeatedly, put his hand on his knee casually, Shen Ci nestled on his lap, and there was a faint fragrance of osmanthus head oil on the hairpin, no, Shen Ci frowned, she sniffed it carefully, in addition to the head oil, this hairpin also had a fishy smell.

Obviously it is a hairpin used by Miss Shijia, how can it have a fishy smell in the market?

Shen Ci thought, probably the people in the dark market that Bai Lan said were in the fish shop or had contact with the people in the fish shop, but how did she tell Liu Mingxiu?

Shouldn't she be happy to see that he is at a loss for this case?

Why bother him.

"Where's the dark market?" Liu Mingxiu's expression was awe-inspiring, and he stared at Bai Lan for a moment.

Bai Lan is sitting on pins and needles right now, with Liu Mingxiu in front of her and Meng Wei in the back, she is really tormented in her abdomen and back.

"In an alley behind Man Tingfang."

Man Tingfang is a rouge shop in the capital, with complete goods and novel styles, which are deeply loved by the nobles of the capital, but there is a dark market behind the lively Man Tingfang!

"Yan Luan, take Bai Lan to find it." Liu Mingxiu stroked Shen Ci's chin twice, then looked at Qin Wan and Meng Wei, and frowned with some headaches, "As an aunt, what kind of body is it to fight in the mansion." ”

"Master, it was the green little cheap hooves that touched my moldy head!" Meng Wei glared fiercely at the silent master and servant, and Qin Wan still half-hung her head, looking angry.

In this way, Liu Mingxiu didn't want to see Meng Wei, and waved his hand at her: "Let's go back, Aunt Meng has been thinking about it behind closed doors in her yard, as for Aunt Qin, let Mo Bo go to a doctor, let's go." ”

"Master!" Meng Wei was coquettish, but the tiredness between Liu Ming's eyebrows showed that his patience had reached the extreme.

Qin Wan thanked her sensibly and helped Qingcui to retreat.

Although Meng Wei was unwilling, he didn't want to leave an impression of "ignorance" in Liu Mingxiu's heart, so he had to leave angrily.

When everyone dispersed, the Yunshui Pavilion suddenly became quiet, and Shen Ci wanted to get off Liu Mingxiu's lap, but someone's big hand was tightly imprisoned like pliers, making her unable to move.

The lights were shaken by the wind, and the light and shadow in the room flickered.

Liu Mingxiu got up with her, walked to the window, glanced into the distance, and closed the window casually, approaching the end of the year, the weather is getting colder and colder, but the case of Baochaifang and Xiaodezi is still clueless, over the years, since the Shen family was destroyed, he seems to have exhausted his energy, and he is powerless to all the cases, even though the courtiers have a lot of complaints, but there is always the emperor to protect him.

He sighed.

Shen Ci looked up at him and saw that his face was solemn, knowing that because of the hairpin, she had never heard of the dark market in the capital, and it must be extremely hidden, but if she didn't tell the smell on the hairpin, Liu Mingxiu would probably have to take a lot of trouble.

"Zhaozhao, do you think I'm getting more and more useless?"

He looked down at her, scratched the tip of his index finger at the base of her ear, and when he saw that she didn't answer, he raised his eyebrows again, "Huh?" ”

Shen Ci rolled his eyes in his heart, and said in his heart, how can you be useless, you can endure it very much.

Out of anger about the Shen family's affairs, Shen Ci didn't find a way to tell the fishy thing after all, Yan Luan led Bai Lan back, saying that there was indeed a dark market in the alley behind Man Tingfang, but they didn't find anyone who sold hairpins.

Shen Ci nestled on the windowsill, wagging his tail to listen to Yan Luan's sigh.

Liu Mingxiu's eyes were dark, he didn't speak for a long time, and he didn't know what he was thinking, the hairpin was placed on the table, he looked at it twice before asking, "Is there any whereabouts of the other goods in Baochai Fang?" ”

Yan Luan shook his head, the cow that he had bragged with Qiao Ziqian before always felt a little slap in the face now.

"Call Yin Shuo, visit again, and see if there are any stolen goods from the dark market in the capital."

"It's-"

"Difficult?" Liu Mingxiu raised his eyebrows, looking not very easy to speak.

Yan Luan said truthfully: "We have also thought of this method before, but these are all the belongings of our daughter's family, and most of the people we buy are nobles in the capital, it is really-"

"In the eyes of the officials of the Criminal Department, there are only suspects and dead people, how can there be any men and women?"

Shen Ci shook his head when he heard this, and said in his heart that this man only had to solve the case in his heart, and he didn't have the slightest popularity, just thinking about being picked up by someone on the back of his neck, Liu Mingxiu still carried her like this for the first time, she trembled with fright, and her limbs instinctively shrank up, like a poor worm.

A clear and handsome face enlarged in front of his eyes, he stared at her with a smile and asked, "Little thing, your tail is waging so happily, but what are you arranging for me?" ”

"Meow." Shen Ci rolled her eyes, only to find that Yan Luan had left, and only she and Liu Mingxiu were left in the study, the advantage of being a cat is that no emotion will be shown on her face, she looked at this face indifferently, and couldn't help swallowing her saliva.

Liu Mingxiu chuckled, slid her up and down from the Adam's apple, and hugged her into his arms, his voice was pleasant, but it seemed to be talking about inconsequential trivial matters: "I didn't take these small cases to heart, the world said that I was a traitor, so I just sat on this head." ”

Shen Ci snorted coldly, stretched out his claws to hook his sleeve, the silk threads on his clothes were hooked, but he didn't care, patted her head, and smiled more and more brightly: "As long as Zhao Zhao likes me, it's fine." ”

Shen Ci's movements froze, is this person still shameless?