Shen Chen's thoughts matched Lin Xi's.

Lin Xi looked around the room and said, "When I first came in, I also thought about this question. Because the first few times I passed by this room, I smelled the strange fragrance, but not in the home of the two officials. If anything, it's just this aroma. ”

"To be precise, everything in the world can be used to make poison, and so are spices, but they are relatively rare."

Shen Chen asked again: "Lady, did you smell the strange fragrance on the deceased when you conducted the autopsy in the Yamen?" ”

Lin Xi was stunned for a moment, and his face instantly became solemn: "No!" ”

Shen Chen said: "Last night, we could smell the fragrance when we passed by outside, which means that the smell inside is even greater." Yueqin has lived here for a few days, and it is impossible for her body not to be touched. ”

"Moreover, the deceased did not have it on him, indicating that the deceased did not stay in this room for long! At least before evening, the dead can't be there, otherwise they will get a smell on their bodies! Lin Xi added.

Shen Chen hummed in agreement, and looked around after entering.

Lin Xi also watched, focusing on finding the spices in the house.

The spices were not found, but Lin Xi found two boxes of rouge on the dresser.

She opened it and sniffed it, one of the boxes was strange, and there seemed to be several smells.

Thinking of this, Lin Xi simply dipped his fingertips and was about to apply it to the back of his hand, when Shen Chen, who saw it, grabbed his hand.

Lin Xi looked at him: "What's wrong?" ”

Shen Chen said: "Apply it to my hand." Yueqin went out to buy rouge yesterday, presumably for an unusual purpose, and bought a box of unused ones in the rouge shop, which is even more strange. There are two boxes here, and you don't know which one she bought. If she bought it to confuse her vision, the other box was probably inappropriate. ”

"You mean it could be poisonous?" Lin Xi broke away from his hand and said, "Don't worry, I'm a doctor, and nothing poisonous can harm me." ”

With that, she applied it to the back of her hand and smeared.

Looking at it again at this time, Lin Xi smelled something wrong.

She sniffed, "Shen Chen, something is wrong with this rouge." Ordinary rouge rarely smells because it is not good for women's skin. And after this rouge is blurred, it not only tastes pungent, but also a bit like ...... Like the smell we smelled before! ”

Shen Chen immediately took Lin Xi's hand and sniffed it, "Indeed." Although the smell is faint, you can smell it. ”

Lin Xi hissed, "I just applied so much, it has such a big smell, this box of rouge is a lot, if you use it more, wouldn't half the room have it?" And I look at the rouge has been used for a while. ”

After a pause, Lin Xi remembered: "On the human skin mask worn by the deceased, there are indeed traces of fat powder!" ”

Shen Chen's eyes sharpened and he opened another box.

The other box of rouge is more ordinary, and the color is also common.

Shen Chen put away the two boxes of rouge and said, "I'll go back to the yamen for interrogation now." It's not early, you stay at the inn to eat, I'll ask Wu Jiu to send Erbao over later. ”

Lin Xi said in her heart that if she interrogated, she couldn't help much, so she should come down and reminded: "Then remember to confirm with the proprietress of the rouge shop which of the two boxes of rouge was bought by Yueqin from her shop." ”

Shen Chen nodded, hugged Lin Xi, and went out with her.

Lin Xi said goodbye to Shen Chen, looked back at the room, thoughtfully called the guy to ask for dinner, and then returned to their room.

It didn't take long for Erbao to come.

Lin Xi thanked Wu Jiu, but the other party only nodded slightly, and left without saying anything.

"Mother, how are you and Daddy?" Erbao couldn't wait to ask.

Lin Xi said: "I don't have a clue yet, I have to wait until I see a more accurate confession of the suspect before I can have a direction." In addition, two more people died. ”

This case is really getting more and more complicated.

At this time, someone came to deliver dinner, but it was the shopkeeper who came himself.

The shopkeeper's flattering smile made the guy serve a large table of delicacies, and said, "These are the specialties of this store, madam, you can try them." ”

Lin Xi said: "I didn't ask for these, the shopkeeper will say something about it." ”

The shopkeeper smiled dryly: "There is nothing to do, the grass people just want to ask Mrs. to inquire, how long will this yamen be able to solve the case?" Grass people...... Waiting to do business. ”

Erbao glanced at the shopkeeper.

Lin Xi said: "This is a matter of the yamen, and I don't understand it." ”

A guy next to him couldn't help but mutter: "But the people from this yamen have come several times." Besides, there is no shadow of a murderer in the investigation, and I don't think there is a murderer at all! ”

"What did you say?" Lin Xi looked over.

The shopkeeper's face changed, and he glanced at the guy.

The guy immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly said that it was nothing.

"No, you said there was no murderer at all." Erbao crossed his arms and looked at him, smiling slightly, but how to look at it gloomy, "You think clearly, and invite it truthfully." Otherwise, if we go and talk to the officials, you will be taken to the Yamen prison, and you will have to go through all kinds of torture. ”

When the man heard this, his face turned pale, and he knelt on the ground with a plop, and kept kowtowing.

"Noble man spare his life! Noble man spare his life! ”

"The little one has nothing to do with it, and I say this because...... Because...... Someone in that room died! ”

The shopkeeper's face changed, and he scolded: "Shut up, when will you dare to say that kind of bad thing!" ”

"Shut up."

Lin Xi stopped the shopkeeper, then got up and walked to the guy, squatted down to be at eye level with him, and said, "I seem to have heard the words of the dead man in that room last night, what's going on?" ”

The guy looked at the shopkeeper timidly, and Erbao immediately said, "Say it quickly!" Otherwise, I will send you to the yamen and say! ”

The guy immediately said, "It was a month ago!" A male guest moved into that room, but died in that room a few days later! A guest found out about the official, but after the people from the yamen came, they couldn't find anything, and they didn't find the murderer, and finally said that the male guest was sick and died violently! ”

Later, however, a few more guests moved in, either because they saw something unclean in the middle of the night, or because they heard any strange noises, and they were scared to stay. Then some people said that the male guest was actually harmed, but he didn't find out, so he was unwilling to be reincarnated and stayed there! ”

"Since then, the room has been unoccupied, and our inn business has also faded, and it has only recently improved. The female guest who died was the only one who dared to live in so far, and we and the shopkeeper were afraid that she would know about it and be afraid to leave, so we didn't say anything. Don't dare to let other guests know, lest you not make money. ”

Speaking of this, the guy looked at the shopkeeper cautiously before saying, "Perhaps, it was the blind male guest who harmed the female guest." ”

Lin Xi looked at the shopkeeper, the other party's face was about to stiffen, and he could only laugh dryly.

Lin Xi recalled the details of yesterday's arrival, and the man and the shopkeeper were indeed strange when they received them.