Wen Mingtang also fell silent when he heard this confession, and looked down at the rice balls whose eyes were red from crying.

Tang Yuan raised his head, crying so pitifully, met Wen Mingtang's gaze, and opened his mouth to explain: "It's true, Master Wen, I saw the painted skin monster!" ”

Liu Yuantong couldn't help but shake his head when he heard the errand guards, seeing Tang Yuan like this, I am afraid that it will not be able to help much, when investigating the case, there is a little girl crying on the side and it is also a headache, so he said to Wen Mingtang: "Master Wen, you take the Tang Yuan away first!" The left and right people are in the Dali Temple, what is the matter when I turn around, I will come and ask the soup balls later. ”

Right now, the little girl is shouting "painted skin monsters", and she can't ask anything, maybe she will calm down after the while, and she won't shout about monsters, but she can remember some details.

Wen Mingtang heard this, nodded, and left with the rice balls.

After Wen Mingtang left with Tang Yuan, Liu Yuan squatted down with someone and looked at the man who was "painting skin monsters" in Tang Yuan's mouth.

Because of the weird makeup on his face, it was difficult to see the specific appearance of the man for a while. However, looking at his figure, tall and thin, he didn't look at his face, this figure wore such a big-sleeved robe in the style of the Wei and Jin dynasties, but it was quite a bit of a "fairy" feeling of feathering and ascending to immortals.

But right now, this person is lying there upright and becomes a corpse, and his face is painted with ghostly makeup, and the sense of "immortal" has directly become a sense of "ghost", and in broad daylight, it is also strange.

Before the work came, Liu Yuantong didn't touch the person's body, but just stood aside and looked at the person's body, and didn't see any external injuries from the outside.

Although a thick layer of powder is applied to the neck, it is still clear whether there are strangulation marks.

There are no strangulation marks or anything like that, it's not drowning or anything, so ...... The most likely cause of death was poisoning.

However, this person's lips were coated with red lipstick, and until he wiped it off, he couldn't tell if his lips were purple or poisoned.

Liu Yuan looked down at the "Painted Skin Monster" lying on the ground for a moment, and soon, there was an exclamation from Wu Bucai at the mouth of the alley.

"Zhao You have a tendon, walk slowly, your legs will be dragged off!"

Zhao You dragged Wu Bucai three steps and two steps to the mouth of the alley, loosened Wu Bucai's clothes, looked at Lin Fei behind him, and said disgustedly: "You old man is walking too slowly!" ”

If you go slowly, you can't "pull out the seedlings to grow" like this! Looking at the thinned soles of his shoes, Wu Bucai pointed at Zhao Youqi's fingers and trembled, turned his head and snorted, and followed Lin Fei in front.

When he saw the "Painted Skin Monster" on the ground, Wu Bucai couldn't help but exclaim, touched the goosebumps on his arm, and said: "This corpse is too infiltrating, if you see it at night, you have to be scared to death!" ”

Liu Yuan glanced at Wu Bucai, who was exclaiming, with a subtle look in his eyes: "...... It is indeed seen at night. ”

Wu Bucai: "......" Looking at Liu Yuan's subtle eyes, he couldn't help but ask, "Which unlucky guy did you see?" ”

Liu Yuan said: "The little handyman under the chef Master Wen. ”

Wu Bucai: "...... That clever little girl? ”

Liu Yuan nodded "um", saw Wu Bucai looking around for tangyuan, and said: "I asked Master Wen to take it away first, she was incoherent, and insisted that the one lying on the ground was a painted skin monster!" ”

Wu Bucai: "......"

Before he could speak, he heard Lin Fei's voice ring.

"Painted Skin Monster?" Lin Fei tilted his head and asked Liu Yuan.

Liu Yuan nodded and repeated the confession of the crying monster who came down from the painting.

Wu Bucai listened, twitched the corners of his mouth, and couldn't help but say: "I heard this story when I passed by the kitchen that day, it was Master Wen who told her, and I was shocked when an old man heard it. ”

Lin Fei didn't say anything when he heard this, but just stretched out his hand towards Liu Yuan and said, "What about the blank picture scroll?" ”

Liu Yuan handed over the blank scroll from the officer's hand.

Lin Fei took the scroll, glanced at the blank scroll, and touched the edge of the scroll that had stepped on the footprints and folded the edges, and after a pause, he pointed to the messy footprints on the edge of the scroll, frowned and asked Liu Yuan: "Is this what you stepped on?" ”

Liu Yuan: "......"

It's not that he stepped out, he came late, he only came this morning, but most of them were stepped out by the tall soldiers behind him.

Seeing Liu Yuan looking back at the tall and tall servant, Lin Fei didn't speak, but just touched the edge of the folded scroll and asked Liu Yuan: "When you came over, was this scroll scattered on the ground?" ”

Liu Yuan nodded and said, "Yes." After a pause, he said, "The little girl in Tangyuan was stupid, thinking that she didn't dare to approach when she saw the painted skin monster, so she didn't destroy this scene." ”

Wu Bucai, who was on the side, heard this, and coldly poured a basin of cold water over: "She didn't destroy it, but she asked you to destroy it!" ”

Liu Yuan and the other servants: "......"

After a pause, he glanced back at the embarrassed servant, and Liu Yuan explained: "Tang Yuan screamed in fright after seeing it when he passed by last night, attracting a lot of people to watch. By the time the warm-hearted people went to Dali Temple to beat the drum and report to the official, it was already nearly midnight, and there were few people in the government except for the night guards......"

"A few of them are still novices with little experience. When I rushed over, I dispersed the group of onlookers first, and on the way, I quarreled with the group of people, pushed and shoved a few times, and the fog rose in the middle of the night, so I couldn't see clearly......"

He had gone back early in the morning, and was not in the yamen, but when he came this morning, he was stunned when he saw the alleys full of footprints on the ground, broken vegetable leaves and two raw eggs that had been broken on the ground.

Except for the corpse, the scroll was not broken! Then the messenger who came early in the morning walked in a hurry, and stepped on the curls of the scroll.

The whole scene was a mess.

The little girl in Tangyuan was frightened and cried all night after being taken home by her family, and she was still crying when she brought it over this morning, only knowing how to call monsters. Liu Yuan looked at this scene, and his head was big.

Dali Temple is going to solve a case of monster murder, and I am afraid that it will become the laughing stock of the entire Chang'an City.

After hearing this, Lin Fei fell silent, and after a pause, he got up and looked around.

The corpse fell at the mouth of the alley, which is the mouth of the alley that can be seen everywhere in Chang'an City, the ground of bluestone slabs and bricks, the courtyard walls of the houses on both sides, and there are two road sticks erected at the mouth of the alley, the wind blows, and the lanterns on the road sticks shake for a while.

Lin Fei looked up, looked at the lantern for a moment, and then looked at the corpse that fell to the ground on his back again.

After a long time, he said to Wu Bucai, who had already prepared on the side: "Let's conduct an autopsy!" ”

Wu Bucai nodded, put the box on his back on the ground, and when he squatted down and took a wet towel to wipe the makeup on the deceased's face, Lin Fei suddenly said, "Wait!" ”

Wu Bucai's movements in his hand instinctively stopped, and then he saw Lin Fei pointing to the deceased's red lips and said, "This color is a little special in red." ”