Ruoshui 'downtown', located in the most remote northeast of the city, a total of 18 squares, between the squares are separated by the square wall, the main street is dilapidated, very muddy, but because of the accessibility in all directions, one of them can even go straight to several squares near the lengthy street, it has become the shortest way for the criminal department to handle cases.

Most of the people living here have no serious work, and the only means of making money is to buy and sell things at low prices outside the downtown area, and then sell them to foreign merchants, or exchange them at a reasonable price in the downtown area. There is also a kind of business, which uses gambling houses and taverns as a disguise, to secretly buy and sell young children and women, or to peddle news from the palace, the latter being the most profitable.

And the man who ran this most profitable business eventually became a wealthy merchant in the city, and this rich merchant started a serious business again, and his shopkeepers were all over the city, but in fact, it was just to hide his true face.

At the entrance of the downtown area, there is a dilapidated archway, bounded by the archway, and the outside is the orderly distribution of residential shops, and then to the west or south, it is a prosperous area. But inside the archway, it is chaotic and dirty, and it is unsightly.

Through the archway, walk a hundred or so steps, it is the main street of the downtown area.

Su Yan walked ahead with a dog's tail in his mouth, striding meteors, with a sense of rivers and lakes, which was extremely conflicting with this bright dress. The two well-dressed young men who followed her ass like a head and tail complained all over their faces, thinking that they would be reused when they first joined the Criminal Department, but they turned out to accompany a woman to this poor place, which was simply a bully for newcomers!

These two are brothers, only two years apart, but they look like they are seven or eight years old, the mature one is old-fashioned, and the young one has a childish face, calling one brother at a time, and the elder brother is extremely dissatisfied with his younger brother's eyebrows. It is said that beating is kissing and scolding is love, but how do you see that this brother is not so close to his younger brother.

During the chat, Su Yan learned that his brother's name was 'Wang Yan', but his younger brother was called 'Yang Lian', and when asked, Wang Yan had no choice but to confide that he was born with his mother's surname, Yang Lian then said that although his brother has a different surname than himself, he has always been the eldest in the family. Su Yan faintly felt that her brother still had a lot of secrets to tell, and she wanted to ask in detail, but in the end she didn't ask.

Although the main street is chaotic and dirty, there are no fewer people than the long street, there are many shops on both sides of the street, and the street vendors do a variety of businesses, and the most important thing is that the prices are very close to the people! Su Yan sighed: If the water is really fucking humane!

"Where the hell are you going, sir?" Wang Yan held back all the way, and finally couldn't help but ask this sentence.

"Investigate the case, you adults didn't explain?"

"Investigating the case? You're taking us around here like headless flies, how the hell are you going to find out?! ”

Su Yan stopped and looked back at him. Yang Lian felt that the situation was serious, and hurriedly stepped forward to apologize: "My brother is in a hurry, don't blame Mr." ”

Su Yan said to Wang Yan: "You are just too anxious, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, don't you know?" ”

"Yes!" He said with a straight face, "But you have to have a clue to investigate the case, you can find clues with us around?" Don't laugh! There is a specialization in the art industry, you ......" He couldn't say the last few words, and his younger brother took the lead and said: "We have just entered the Criminal Department, we have no experience, and we have to teach us more, sir, you are much more professional than us!" ”

Specialized? I'm afraid your brother doesn't think so in his heart, he has been studying hard for more than ten years, and once he entered the Criminal Department, he had to be a subordinate to a teaching gentleman, how could he be willing? But he is indeed a teacher with a lot of experience!

Su Yan happily accepted his praise and said happily: "Since you want to learn, then watch and listen more!" ”

Wang Yan whispered disdainfully: Where did you get your confidence! When Su Yan heard it, he didn't bother to refute it, Wang Yan had a cold temperament, rejected people for thousands of miles, and already had a prejudice against himself, so he could only use practical actions to convince him.

The three of them said no more and stepped into the most lively center of the city, the octagonal building.

The octagonal building, however, is not a building, but an alley that extends from the main street, twisting and turning, with many branches, like the thousand-year-old tree, on which many messy old vines are hung, some coiled on the trunk, some rooted in the soil, extending far away.

These vines are the branches, and the people and the messy huts are the parasites on the vines.

"What are you bringing us here for?" Wang Yan looked up at the plaque hanging at the top of the tavern on the third floor. Everything here made him feel strange, even the plaque was different from the one on the long street, pitch black irregular wood, blood-red paint painted with three big characters 'water in the sky', hanging high, three red letters against the ground, as if three blood-red eyes were about to fall at any moment.

He stumbled in fright, and thought to himself, what the hell is this place!

The younger brother was also full of horror, looked back at the noisy and chaotic scene around him, hurriedly approached Su Yan, pulled her sleeve and asked, "Sir, why is this so weird here?" Look at those people, their clothes are shabby, and those shops, they don't look like serious business, and there are, look at this alley, it's dirty and smelly, how do they live here?! ”

Su Yan also felt strange that in the depths of the city, there was such an isolated place, which was eerily like hell.

Inevitably aroused onlookers, the three of them did not dare to stay longer, and immediately entered the restaurant after cleaning up their shock.

As soon as she entered the door, Su Yan felt that there were many pairs of eyes looking at her, but when she went to look around, she didn't notice anything abnormal, and all the drinkers were immersed in drinking and eating meat, and they didn't care that there were suddenly three more well-dressed young men.

The three of them didn't dare to raise their heads, and immediately went up to the second floor, and just around the corner, a guy suddenly jumped out of nowhere to block the way, and greeted with a smile: "Are the three guest officers drinking wine or tea?" ”

"Drink...... Drink! Yang Lian stumbled.

The guy looked at Su Yan casually, and said to him with a smile: "Drinking is on the first floor, what does the guest officer want to drink, tell the little one." ”

"Yes, yes, ......"

"What a thing!" Su Yan pushed Yang Lian away and instructed the guy: "The wing room on the second floor is prepared with the best wine and meat, and you must not disturb it without orders." "Anyway, don't give him room to refuse, and go inside first.

The man was stunned for a moment, hurriedly followed, led them to the innermost wing, and then closed the door and exited.

Su Yan cautiously pushed open the window, only to find that this location was just below the plaque, and he could have a panoramic view of the octagonal tower.

"There's something wrong with that guy." Wang Yan said.

"Not to mention the problem, everyone here is weird." The younger brother said as he tinkered with the bottles and cans on the table.

Su Yan looked at the two of them, raised his eyebrows and said, "You guys still have some eyesight, believe me now, I'm not going around with you." ”

"How do you know there's a problem here?" Wang Yan seemed to think of something, and hurriedly asked, "Do you have a hidden pile here?" ”

"Where did I get the money to set up the hidden pile, I'm just relying on the experience of solving the case several times, and the method of solving the case has been summed up," Su Yan saw that they were very interested, so he explained to them, "Investigate the case, there are three steps, one look, two touches and three in-depth." ”

The two of them were confused, and Su Yan continued to explain to them patiently: "One look, it's to look for suspicious places, look at the situation, the second is to touch the details from these situations, and only by finding the details can there be a breakthrough, and the third is to go deeper, of course, through these breakthroughs, to find out the enemies behind the scenes, as well as all the people involved, they must be thoroughly investigated one by one." I've been walking all the way, and it's the first step: look! Now for the second step: touch! ”

The two suddenly realized, and nodded like pounding garlic.

"I thought ......"

"Why do you think so?" Su Yan glanced at the two of them with disgust, "If your thoughts are pure, you will handle the case faster, do you want to make achievements?" ”

"Yes!"

"Then work hard, work harder, that guy, maybe he can set up some situations!"

"How?"

"Look!"

The guy served the food as fast as ever, and as soon as the three of them finished speaking, the door opened, and the three of them were immediately silenced.

"The three guest officers are all rich and noble, how did they come to this poor place to drink?" The guy asked them respectfully.

"Pick a place to drink?" Su Yan was dressed as a man at this time, and he spoke in a suppressed voice, and then learned the tone of those idle official sons and daughters and said to the guys, "You are a little man, pour your tea and serve your dishes conscientiously, who borrowed your courage to talk to the master like this!" ”

"No, no, no, the small one doesn't mean that, the small one means that no matter how good the wine in the poor place is, it is not as good as the Yunlai Pavilion and the Xiangyuan, don't blame our restaurant for not entertaining us well!"

"It's not that the family is in charge, and those taverns have sent people to keep an eye on it, so we won't come to this place! Though you give the best, you can't give the poor people's wine, or I won't pay!" Wang Yan crossed his arms and leaned on the back of the chair, as if he didn't want to touch everything here.

The guy nodded and said no.

Su Yan saw the opportunity and interjected: "Although the downtown environment is not good, the things are cheap, don't dislike the two of you, let's go shopping after eating and drinking later, maybe we can catch a lot of good things." Let's just say that the spices for picking incense are said to flow from the palace, and there is nothing on the market, but they are still sold here! ”

"The spices are indeed good, and the price is fair, but the rumors that flow out of this palace are actually false," the guy found that although the three masters had a bad attitude, they seemed to be more fun-loving than the other, thinking that it would be good for him to set up with them more, so he put the plate used for serving the dishes under his armpit, and continued, "The three masters are from a rich background, and they have never been here, so I will introduce them to you." In this downtown area, everything that is sold is something that the eunuchs don't want, buy it cheaply, and then sell it to foreign merchants at a high price, it doesn't matter if you can't sell it, so many people in the downtown can digest it by yourself. However, you just said that the things that flow out of the palace, the small ones have lived here for many years, and they know a little bit, and there are indeed some good things that have flowed out of the palace, but they are not flowing out of our Rongguo Palace, but from other countries, the spices you said are from Linguo, exotic fragrances, very precious, even in the palace are very rare, so people on the market think that this incense comes from Ronggong. ”

"Oh? It's such a background, it seems that we have come to the right place by mistake?! Su Yan waved his hand and ordered him to go down.

As soon as the guy left, Yang Lian became anxious, "Why are you letting him go, we haven't asked important questions yet!" ”

Wang Yan suddenly laughed briefly, and Yang Lian stared at him unhappily, always feeling that these two were laughing at him. Su Yan explained to him: "We are also familiar here, and we have acquaintances, are you afraid that you won't be able to ask clues in the future?" ”

"What do you mean?" Yang Lian still didn't understand.

"Put a long line to catch big fish, don't be in a hurry!" Wang Yan spoke, with a helpless smile on his face.

Yang Lian seemed to understand, holding his head and scratching his hair vigorously. Wang Yan patted his head and said, "Little brother, you have to learn to use your brains more in the future in order to get a position in the criminal department, otherwise you can only follow other people's butts and do coolies!" ”

Yang Lian dusted off his hand and puffed out his face, "Just brother, you are smart, just me is stupid, you are not behind Mr. Su's ass like me!" ”

"Don't be poor," Su Yan got up and opened the door a crack, "I'm afraid I can't find anything here, you hurry up and finish the dishes, and then let the guys serve the food, and ask where there is a Qinglou nearby." ”

"Qinglou?" Wang Yan couldn't understand it now.

"You are stupid, since you want to investigate the case of selling people, you have to check the source of those women, Zuo Qing pointed out to me the suspicious line of the downtown area, then you have to check from the women's gathering place, there may be clues."

Wang Yan was skeptical, but he still seriously stuffed vegetables into his mouth, and seeing Yang Lian's hesitation, he grabbed a handful of vegetables and stuffed them into his mouth.