Chapter 3: Naked Provocation
Zhou Yong tiptoed into the study from outside, but as soon as he entered the door, he saw Zhao Wuwu, who was immersed in reading the classics, suddenly raised his head.
He didn't follow the sound, but smelled the smell, and a faint scent of mint grass wafting from Zhou Yong's body interrupted his train of thought.
Seeing that he had been disturbed, Zhou Yong habitually raised his hand and laughed twice, and walked quickly to his desk.
"Boss, I did as you told me to investigate. There is a little girl in the half-incense building, and the housekeeper has been out for a month and hasn't come back, I don't think there's anything suspicious. I also asked the surrounding shops, and they all said that they were a century-old store and didn't see any problems, do you think there is something wrong with it, boss?"
Zhao Wuwu's whole thoughts stopped at the sachet pinned to Zhou Yong's waist, this delicate silver silk embroidery thread and good smell made people's thoughts involuntarily lead to it. Zhou Yong saw that he didn't squeak for a long time, and when he saw the sachet he was pinning, he quickly took it off and put it on the desk.
"It's a giveaway from their building, and I think it's good to wear it. ”
Zhao Wuwu opened it after taking it casually, and found that in addition to cloves, mugwort leaves, angelica, Su leaves, mint, calamus, herbs, honeysuckle and other conventional medicinal materials and a charm to ward off evil spirits, there was nothing else special, was it really suspicious?
In any case, patrols have been stepped up throughout Shangqiu, and they just want no one to die until the missing people are recovered.
But the facts are not as expected, before the fourth watch of this day, a patrol team found the body of a woman, but this time the location was on Baihu Street, and the woman's identity was confirmed and determined to be the only daughter of the Wu family's missing. Half of Suzaku Street and White Tiger Street are under the jurisdiction of Xiping Province, and the location where the woman's body was found happened to be on the edge of Xiping Province.
As soon as this news came out, the first person to faint was Cao Fuyin. As for whether he is really dizzy or pretending to be dizzy, we don't care for the time being, but if he doesn't faint, how can the Li family and the Wu family, who are about to break through the threshold and break the gate, stop there?
In the morgue, the same silver needle was taken out of the deceased's hair, which is enough to explain the connection between the two cases. The only difference is that the woman did not have any injuries on her body and died for a shorter period of time. Thinking like this, Zhao Wuwu suddenly smelled a familiar smell, which was like a faint mint fragrance.
It was a sachet, and he carefully removed the sachet from the deceased, and the workmanship of this silver silk embroidery thread was exactly the same as the one Zhou Yong brought back. In this way, he found the same sachet on the first deceased, the difference being that the sachet of the two men did not contain evil charms.
Listening to Zhou Yong's message when he came back yesterday, this evil talisman was asked by the people in the Banxiang Building from the Changqing Temple, and the two women from disappearance to death seem to be closely related to this Changqing Temple. And both of them were wearing sachets, even if it was a coincidence, it was too coincidental, and it seemed that he should visit these two locations in person.
He was just about to leave, but he saw Zhou Yong running in from outside in a hurry.
"Boss, another corpse has been found on Qinglong Street!"
Zhao Wuwu didn't have time to think about it, he dropped the sachet and walked forward quickly: "Hurry up and prepare the horse to come with me!"
Although the woman of the Wu family in front of her had an accident, after all, it was discovered by the patrol team, so the news was suppressed for the time being, but the person on Qinglong Street actually threw the body on the street in broad daylight, and it is said that the offender drove out of the West Gate in a carriage and walked away, which is obviously a naked provocation!
As soon as Zhao Wuwu and the two arrived at the scene of the incident, they saw a man in black who was majestic, and he went up and kicked the captain of the city guard at the west gate to the ground.
This familiar figure, as well as this person who always likes to dress up in black from the inside out, isn't it Shen Yan, the second young master of the Shen family in Nan'an Mansion? !
"What are a group of rice buckets doing to eat, and your whole team can still let a murderer go?"
The guards guarding the city lowered their heads one by one and didn't dare to speak, and the crowd watching the play on the side also quietly didn't dare to speak, for fear that they would be caught and beaten if they provoked Shen Yan's attention.
Zhao Wuwu didn't think so, he walked forward with a smile.
"Second Prince Shen, I haven't seen him for a few days, and he is still so heroic, he deserves to be one of the best young talents in Shangqiu City!"
Shen Yan's originally gloomy face, when he heard the voice behind him, he unconsciously stretched it by three points, and he turned around impatiently.
"What are you doing here? Let me tell you, this Qinglong Street is the boundary of our Nan'an Mansion, you don't want to show off your power on my territory!"
Shen Yan has always been unaccustomed to him, he always keeps a serious face and doesn't say anything, his father always uses him as a flaunt, and he has to compare him with himself in everything. What's so great about it, isn't it just that I read a few more books, break a few more cases, and look so good......
Zhao Wuwu just wanted to speak, but saw Shen Cong'an, Lord Yin of Nan'an Mansion, walking in through the crowd.
"Zhao Gongzi doesn't want to listen to my unfilial nonsense, it's because I usually neglect to discipline him, so that he is so unpopular now. ”
Seeing Shen Cong'an appear, the captain of the city guard dared to get up from the ground and pat the dust on his body. The rest of the guards guarding the city also secretly breathed a sigh of relief as if they had grasped a life-saving straw. In fact, they were not afraid of him Shen Yan, but they were usually taken care of by Shen Cong'an, so they didn't want to refute the face of the Shen family.
"Lord Shen is serious, Shen Gongzi is just acting impartially, and the lower officials just want to investigate the cases that have been brought out in the past few days, and they just want to find more clues from them. ”
Zhao Wuwu said and raised his hand to salute.
"In this case, Zhao Gongzi might as well go back to Nan'an Mansion with us, there are many inconveniences in talking here. ”
With that, a few people left for Nan'an Mansion. As soon as he walked to the door of the mansion, suddenly a flash of light flashed, Shen Yan reacted very quickly, he pushed Zhao Wuwu on the side over, and the dart passed between the two and nailed it to the door.
Seeing this, Zhou Yong hurriedly drew his sword and patrolled around, but the people around him came and went, and the person who put the hidden weapon was long gone. He stepped forward and carefully removed the dart, with a note attached to it.
"Clue, see you at Mochizuki Pavilion. ”
As soon as Zhou Yong finished reading, Zhao Wuwu got on the horse he was leading behind without saying a word, and he said: "Lord Shen, I hope to gather more people and horses to rush over and ambush around as soon as possible, and the lower officials will go over to explore the road first." ”
Shen Yan quickly climbed on the horse as soon as he saw it, he couldn't be compared to Zhao Wuwu. He didn't care about Zhou Yong's efforts to shout after him, "That's my horse!" and walked away.
In the attic of Banxiang Building, Yun Ying watched the two of them gallop across the street on horseback, turned to the man behind him and asked, "Childe, why do we want to help them?"
The man leaned against the table, the jade bone fan in his hand playing back and forth, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
"With such a good show, I naturally want to see it staged earlier!"