After walking out of the study, Wang Xianling led everyone to the backyard, where there were only a few old houses, in addition to the subordinate's residence and storehouse, there was also a stable. There were two horses tied to the stable, one white and one yellow. Li Zhiyun asked, "Wang County Order, what are you going to do with these two horses?" Wang Xian replied: "According to the law, before the bloody case is solved, this mansion must be sealed." Therefore, the lower official planned to let the horse be led to the market and sold. ”

"No," Li Zhiyun frowned, "The case has not been solved, any item in this mansion may be physical evidence, and it is not allowed to be handled without authorization." ”

"Then, if the house is unfed, won't the horse starve to death?"

Li Zhiyun pondered for a moment and said, "In this way, I will take it back to raise it on my behalf first, and then return it to the official party when the case is solved." When Wang Xianling heard this, he nodded and said, "Then there is Lord Lao." ”

After everyone returned to the front yard, the master had already found Li Zheng, a man in his forties, and Li Zhiyun asked him to check the bodies one by one. After reading it, Li Zheng hesitated a little: "It seems that there is a maid missing." ”

"Handmaiden?" Li Zhiyun said, "Can you tell me a little more detail?" ”

Li Zheng nodded and said, "This matter has to start from three months ago. One day, the clerk led a woman to the villain, saying that he would hire the woman as a maid. According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, there must be a guarantor for a slave and a maidservant, but the woman came to the door by herself, saying that her hometown had been burned by the war, and she was left here, helpless, where to find a guarantor? The villain saw that she was pitiful, so he gave her a guarantee. ”

"How old is that woman? What is your name? ”

"About seventeen or eighteen years old, called, called Aunt Liu."

Li Zhiyun thought for a while and said, "Did the woman stay in the Lou family all the time, or did she leave later?" Li Zheng listened, shook his head and said, "This villain doesn't know." ”

After surveying the scene, everyone left Loujiazhuang and returned to the city. After entering the city, Li Zhiyun broke up with Wang Xianling at the fork in the road and returned to the King of Chu Inn with his entourage.

A total of dozens of people came this time, although there are many guest rooms in the King of Chu Inn, there are not too many empty rooms, so you can't drive other guests away, right? Therefore, except for Li Zhiyun and Liu Hong, who live in a single room, everyone else is two people in one room, or even three or four people in one room. The inn also cleared out a few old warehouses and put up beds, but Rao still can't live in it. Fortunately, they brought tents with them, and set up tents in the courtyard, so that everyone could settle down.

Li Zhiyun returned to the guest room to rest for a while, and then went to Liu Hong's room. As soon as I entered the door, I saw Liu Hong sitting next to the desk, talking to a person opposite. It was a young man in his twenties, and he looked shrewd and capable. His name is Gao Lu, and he is a counselor of the Chu Palace, and Li Zhiyun arranged a part-time job for him, that is, the general manager of the business department of Pizhou, and several inns and wineries in Pizhou are under his control.

Gao Lu saw Li Zhiyun coming in, and hurriedly stood up and saluted, and then said: "Lord Wang, you have something to discuss, you will resign first, and I will report to you another day." After Gao Lu left, Li Zhiyun sat down opposite Liu Hong and said, "Lord Liu, I went to the scene of the crime with Wang Xianling, and the family outside the building was indeed killed, and the treasure was also robbed. ”

"What then?" Liu Hongdao, "Shall we stay in Pizhou, or go back to Chang'an?" ”

Li Zhiyun thought for a while and said, "Let's stay for a few days first, it just so happens that there are still some things to deal with here in Pizhou." ”

At night, Li Zhiyun was thinking about the day's events in front of the candlestick, and the candlestick on the desk was burning a butter candle, which was bright and dazzling. At this time, Liu Yinglian pushed the door and walked in, and she and Yahuan lived in the next room. Liu Yinglian saw that he was sitting there pondering, so she asked, "What do you want?" Li Zhiyun stood up and said, "I didn't think about anything." Then he stepped forward and took her hand and pulled her to the edge of the bed and sat down. Liu Yinglian turned her head to look at him and said, "I heard Abba say that the person you came to talk about business was killed, is it true?" Li Zhiyun nodded.

"So what to do?"

"It's okay, I'll take care of this." Li Zhiyun said, reaching out to hug her slender waist.

Liu Yinglian gently took his hand away, tilted her head to look at him and said, "Sit well, don't be dishonest with your hands." "The candles in the room are flickering, and looking at the beauty under the lamp is not interesting. The two were so close to each other, and the fragrance emanating from Liu Yinglian's body went straight into his nostrils, it was an orchid fragrance mixed with the girl's body fragrance, which made him intoxicated, how could his hands be idle?

After the scene of the horror in Gaoling County, their relationship took a step further, and the two of them were so tired that they couldn't melt away like honey. Therefore, for Li Zhiyun's hug and even kiss, Liu Yinglian was also half-pushed, half-pushed, and wanted to refuse and welcome......

After Liu Yinglian left, Li Zhiyun began to rethink the Lou family murder case. First of all, he had to find out who committed the crime, and he felt that there were three possibilities, one was that the place where the crime was found was shown, but it was done by robbers from afar. They took advantage of the night to sneak into Lou's house, forced the building staff to open the secret room with a steel knife, robbed the treasure, and then killed the whole building staff's family. The other is done by local acquaintances, who coerce the building staff to open the secret room and kill people. The last one is that the Lou family has an inner ghost, and the inner ghost has discovered the mechanism that opened the secret room, colluded with outsiders, and stole the Lou family's treasures late at night. They didn't want to kill people, but they didn't expect to alarm the people of the Lou family when they committed the crime, so they killed people as a last resort.

Li Zhiyun came to Pizhou, originally to discuss cooperation with the building staff, but now the plan is completely lost. The tragic situation of being killed outside the building staff lingered in his mind, could he let the murderer go unpunished? He doesn't know where the treasure of the Lou family is going now, if he can solve the case and recover the treasure, then, if the whole family of the Lou family is killed, the treasure will definitely be handed over to the treasury, and as a reward, he can also share a part of it, and the people of the Lou family will not die in vain.

Thinking of this, Li Zhiyun couldn't help but feel excited, finding out the truth about the Lou family's bloody case would be of great benefit to him. Therefore, he can't stand idly by, both in public and private. He decided not to return to Chang'an for the time being, and lived in Pizhou for a while to see if he could find clues to solve the case.

The next day, Li Zhiyun was practicing calligraphy in the room, and Zhang Zheng came in to report: "Lord Wang, don't drive in Pizhou and ask for a meeting with the head of the march." Li Zhiyun put the wolf pen in his hand on the pen holder and said, "Please." ”

After Zhang Zheng went out, he brought in two people after a while. Li Zhiyun hurriedly stood up and greeted him, one of these two people was a civil official, he was about forty years old, with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, and a thin body, and the official uniform looked empty on his body. The other is a military general, just the opposite of a civil official, he was born with a round waist and a thick back, a wide face and a square mouth, and also sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a straight nose and square cheeks, and a random beard. The two men stand side by side, and the contrast is very comical. The two of them came to Li Zhiyun, and the civil official arched his hand and said: "Don't drive juniper in Pizhou, meet His Royal Highness the King of Chu." ”

Don't drive is an important adjutant of the assassin, because of the noble status, the assassin is accompanied by a stagecoach when he goes out on patrol, so it is called don't drive. Don't drive this official position in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Song in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in "Zhang Song's Dedication" is Yizhou's Don't Drive, because of his dedication, Liu Bei was able to enter Xichuan, which is difficult to climb the blue sky in Shu and establish the Shu Han regime. During the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui changed the long history to a long history, and at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan changed the long history back to a long history, and when it came to Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, he changed the long history to a long history.

The military general hugged his fists and said: "Sang Xianhe, the head of the Pizhou march, see the King of Chu." Li Zhiyun nodded and said, "The two of you have worked hard, please sit down." He asked Zhang Zheng to make tea for the two, then sat down opposite him, and smiled: "This king came to Pizhou to do some personal affairs, I don't want to disturb the two, I'm sorry." Juniper had a flattering smile on his face and said: "The prince is a royal nobleman, with a noble status and a heavy responsibility, which can be called the Optimus Pillar of the Society." Now that we have taken the time to visit our remote state, we should come to our door to hear the king's message. However, Zhao Tingshi set off to inspect the county three days ago, and the lower officials had sent someone to inform him, asking him to return to the city of Zhou to meet the king of Chu as soon as possible. Li Zhiyun said with a smile: "Lord Du, since Zhao Zhishi is busy with official business, there is no need to disturb him." ”

Sang Xianhe was a reckless martial artist, he couldn't say such a literary crepe, his eyes were dry on the side, his mouth was wide open, and he couldn't say a word. Li Zhiyun turned to him and said, "General Sang, this king heard from Wang County's order that he has informed you of the murder of the whole family outside the Loujiazhuang building, and I ask you to help set up the checkpoint, I don't know if it can be found?" Sang Xianhe hurriedly said: "Back to the prince, after receiving the report, the last general immediately sent soldiers to set up checkpoints in all directions and official roads, surrounded Pizhou like an iron bucket, and strictly checked the past merchants, but did not find the thugs who committed the murder and the gold and silver robbed by the Lou family. Li Zhiyun listened, nodded, and said, "Then let the brothers work hard for a few more days and continue to investigate." ”

"Yes."

After Jun Song and Sang Xianhe left, Li Zhiyun cleaned up the pen and inkstone on the bookcase, and then left the inn with Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu, and went to Xinping County to find Wang Xianling. They entered the county government and happened to meet Wang Hao. As soon as Wang Hao saw him, he said: "Lord Wang, Xiaguan has found a painter and asked him to draw a picture of the maid of the house in that building according to Lizheng's description, and post the portrait on the four gates and the market, and send a messenger to visit the villages and towns to see if he can find this woman." ”

Li Zhiyun secretly praised when he heard it, the efficiency of this Wang County Order is quite high, and his ideas coincide with his own. Except for two steel knives and a banner printed with the word "Liang", no useful clues have been found in the Lou family's bloody case, and the mysterious missing maid Liu Gu is likely to be the only breakthrough. So, it is imperative to find her as soon as possible.

"Wang County Order, is there still a portrait? Take it and I'll take a look. ”

Wang Hao hurriedly ordered a servant next to him to get a copy of it, Li Zhiyun took it and took a look, the portrait was painted on a piece of yellow paper, the paper was one foot five inches high, one foot wide, and the woman in the painting was very young, with an apricot face and beautiful eyebrows. The painter's skills are very good, the number of brushes is not much, but the painting is vivid, and the appearance and demeanor of the characters are vividly displayed on the paper. After reading it, he raised his head and said to Wang Xianling: "Is there anything else?" Give me a few more, and I'll bring them back and have the guards help you find them. ”

"Yes, yes, the official ordered the painter to draw a lot of them." Wang County's order said, and asked the official to get a few more.