Jixiang County is not a big county, but it is still famous in the prefecture and even in the county, because it is a standard city of the New Han Dynasty, and the municipal construction and functional layout imitate the national capital Chang'an, which is atmospheric and orderly.

The layout of the national capital follows the rules of the left ancestor and the right society, the front and the back of the city, that is, the east is the temple, the west is the shrine, the front end of the city is the imperial palace, and the back is the market.

Jixiang County has a similar layout.

It runs through the entire city with two main roads, east, west, north and south, connecting the four city gates, and then there is a wide road in the county, which connects end to end, separating the inner city from the outer city.

The county government is in the middle of the inner city, Yicui Building, Dingsheng Building, etc. are also here, and then to the east is the temple, to the west is the school, the south end is the residential area of the officials and the rich, and the north is the market and shops.

Houses such as civilian dwellings and various workshops are distributed in the outer ring.

The serial murder case of the scholar's secret room is the top priority of all the cases in the county, so Dou Dachun personally took them to check the scene.

They left the mansion and headed north, and Xu Da asked, "Shouldn't you go to the west?"

Dou Dachun explained: "The residents in the west are all famous masters, these four scholars have not yet achieved fame, three of them live in Beicheng, and one lives in the outer city, let's go to Beicheng first." ”

The whole Beicheng is the most lively place in the county, with shops on every street and stalls on every street.

In one of the streets, there were some jugglers, and when they arrived, there happened to be a girl walking upside down and a little old man performing a bone-shrinking exercise.

This scene attracted Xu Da, who looked at the girl with deep eyes and said, "Old Seven, I have an extraordinary posture, ah no, thoughts, I have an extraordinary idea." ”

Dou Dachun squeezed to his side and whispered, "Lily unlocking?

Xu Da was in awe: "Lord Dou is an expert." ”

As soon as the two opened their mouths, they knew that they were old prostitutes.

Wang Qilin's face sank, and he was not angry: "What kind of mess?"

Xu Da explained: "I just opened my mouth, what I want to say is, will there be someone who knows acrobatics to use the bone shrinking skill to enter that room? He opened the small window, I think Master Dou didn't check the opening and closing of the small window, right?"

Wang Qilin said: "Let's go to the scene first, don't say anything else, indifferent speculation will only affect our judgment of the truth." ”

There are also several stalls scattered on the street, where there are old Taoist priests telling fortunes, there are men in sackcloth looking at their faces, and there are ancestral gods healing.

There were a lot of people gathered in front of these stalls, and Dou Dachun pointed to an old Taoist priest with a long beard and said, "My lord, let's go over there." ”

There is a white cloth on the ground in front of the old Taoist priest's stall, and on the cloth is a phalanx of surnames, and the surnames of all families are complete.

There were two flags standing beside him, each with two columns, and the first one read: If you don't open your mouth, you will know your surname. The other reads: Count the disasters and the months fall, and look at the rich and the poor.

Seeing this, Xie Toad sneered disdainfully: "It's just a street liar, Lord Dou believes this?"

Dou Dachun pointed to a middle-aged man who was watching: "No, do you remember the first scholar Zhao Hang to die? That's his father." ”

At this time, the old Taoist priest was counting the surname of a man, and he gave the man about twenty small wooden cards, each of which had more than twenty surnames, and then said: "Little brother finds the god card where his surname is located and draws it, and then finds the area where your surname is located on the cloth, and places the god card on it." ”

The man took out a wooden plaque with a big grin, looked for it on the cloth and covered it on a surname phalanx.

The old Taoist priest stared at his face and began to pinch his fingers, and soon he smiled slightly.

Seeing this man, the person next to him asked, "Dao Chief, have you figured out what my Peng brother's surname is?"

The onlookers immediately burst into laughter, and the man's man was confused: "What are you laughing at?"

The old Taoist priest smiled and said, "They are laughing at you for being deceived by your friend, does your friend tell you that his surname is Peng? No, no, he is actually surnamed Nie!"

The man and his friend glanced at each other, and their faces were shocked: "Sure enough, it's a master." ”

Someone asked, "That man, your real surname is Nie?"

The man nodded.

Some people were suspicious: "It can't be a double reed, right? Or do you know the old Taoist priest?"

Xiao Er of the rice shop on the street said: "Brother Nie is a dealer from the south, he is an old acquaintance with my shopkeeper, but he has no acquaintances in this city, and he will not sing a double reed with a Taoist priest. ”

The man surnamed Nie didn't care about other people's questions, he took out a silver baht and said, "Dao Chief, please count me as an heir." ”

The old Taoist priest stroked his beard and smiled: "Why do you need to count this, you actually want to ask me for an heir, right?"

The man surnamed Nie was excited, and he shouted: "Dao Chang is really a god, please help me give birth to a son." ”

Xu was surprised: "Yo, did you really meet a master?"

Xie Toad sneered, beckoned him over and whispered a few words.

After listening to this, Xu Da was stunned, and then arched his group and squeezed to the front with his arms and said: "If you want to find someone to help you give birth to a son, then it is more reliable to find me than to find this old man, but is your wife young and beautiful?"

The man surnamed Nie was furious when he heard this, he turned around and stood up with his fist raised, and when he saw Xu Da dressed up again, he let go of his fist and turned to sit down.

Xu Da picked up a wooden card from the ground, slapped it on the surname phalanx and said, "Old man, you can calculate my surname." ”

The old Taoist priest jumped on his cheeks after seeing him dressed in cloud-patterned black, and then he looked at it and said, "My lord is surnamed Wang?"

Xu Da sneered and picked up another sign and put it on another surname phalanx.

Seeing this, the old Taoist priest understood, he smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, spare my life, the old man is old, and he has no children and no daughters under his knees, so he just wants this stall to mix a mouthful of food." ”

Xie Toad reprimanded: "Do you dare to eat the rice that you get by cheating? This is a meal with cause and effect, and you are not afraid of choking to death?"

The old Taoist priest sighed: "Choking to death is better than starving to death." ”

The man surnamed Nie thought that they were bullying others, so he said indignantly: "Adults bullying an old man, aren't they afraid of damaging the prestige of the Heavenly Eunuch?"

Xu Da sneered: "It's really good to persuade the ghost who wants to die! Lao Tzu is saving your money bag, you still don't know the hearts of good people!"

He said to the man's friend: "You choose a brand and put it down." ”

After the friend surnamed Nie finished choosing, Xu Da looked at it and said, "Your surname is Ding?"

The two big men looked at each other, confused.

Xu Dadao: "A bunch of idiots, haven't figured it out yet?" The wooden sign and the surname area each have twenty characters, but only one can overlap. The wooden sign you choose has your last name on it, and the area you put it in also has your last name, so people only need to figure out what this character is, won't they know what your last name is?"

"I see. The onlookers were stunned.

The man surnamed Nie frowned and asked his friend, "You understand?"

His friend also frowned, but quickly said, "Of course I understand, you don't understand?"

The man surnamed Nie smiled: "Haha, I understand too." ”

Wang Qilin asked Xiao Er of the rice shop: "This businessman from the south of the country, is he always losing money in business?"

Xiao Er said: "How do you know?"

Wang Qilin said: "I can also tell fortunes." ”

The old Taoist priest wanted to ease relations with them, so he smiled and said, "Can the adults calculate it for me?"

Wang Qilin hated liars very much, so he said coldly: "I calculated that there will be a catastrophe after your death, and you are afraid that you will not be able to avoid this catastrophe." ”

When the old Taoist priest heard this, he quickly rolled up the white cloth and packed up his things and ran away, Xu Da looked at a stall next to him.

The old man behind the booth said in a panic: "My lord, I am a liar, digging corns, cutting hemorrhoids, not a liar, I have real skills, I don't believe I will give you a job on the spot? My lord, do you have corns and hemorrhoids? I will fix it for you on the spot! It is absolutely neat and beautiful!"