The wanted notice spread outside, and Li Zhao, who was the party concerned, was lying in the private room of Tianzihao Building, the largest tavern in Yangzhou, and was drunk.

She was generous, and paid five taels of gold as soon as she paid, and the proprietress Fang Gu complied with her request, except for sending wine every day, and no one was sent to disturb her.

As soon as it was delivered, it was delivered three days later.

This morning, Xiao Er, who delivered the wine on time, knocked on the door of the Tianzi private room for a full quarter of an hour, but no one came to open the door.

In fact, the door did not have a key, but Xiao Er of Fangxianglou has always followed the rules, and he will never enter without permission if he can't knock on the door, so he returned to Fang Gu, and Fang Gu will decide.

Fang Gu has been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, and when she heard that no one responded to the private room, she intuitively felt that there was something wrong in the private room, so she called the government official who happened to be passing by to come over and go to see what happened to the private room of the day.

The group of three went upstairs to the door of the private room, and Aunt Fang opened the door herself. Seeing that Fang Gu was so cautious, the official on the side pressed his hand on the scabbard between his waist and abdomen a little nervously.

With a creak, the door was gently pushed open by Fang Gu, followed by a rushing smell of wine.

The three of them all covered their noses and fanned the unpleasant smell, Fang Gu stepped through the door, and after looking around, she saw a crooked person in the pile of wine jars.

It was the guest who was generous and dressed as a man.

"Hey, this, this, this ......" Fang Gu twisted her waist and walked closer, she looked down, the guest's face was blue, and it didn't look like he was asleep.

"Boss Fang, let me take a look. "The official's surname is Xu, his name is Zhanping, and he has a good relationship with Aunt Fang on weekdays. At this time, it was the time for him to stand up and show his manhood, so he naturally stood up as he could.

Fang Gu pinched the handkerchief in her hand, and when she heard the words, she took a step back from the side as if she was panicked, and said to Xu Zhanping: "Then I will bother Xu Ye." ”

Xu Zhanping nodded, he shook the scabbard of his hand, strode forward, walked to the pile of wine jars very imposingly, bent down and tried the man's snort.

After a while, Xu Zhanping shook his head and straightened up, and he said to Aunt Fang with some regret: "Boss Fang, this person is gone, since it is a homicide, then I will go back to the mansion now to ask Mr. Qi Zuo to come over, and this room must be guarded, don't let the idle people come in." ”

Fang Gu actually guessed a thing or two about this situation, she nodded again and again, and took Xiao Er, who had already been frightened, to send Xu Zhanping out.

As soon as Xu Zhanping left, Fang Gu pointed out two bolder juniors to come over to guard the door, and called two juniors to the street to guard the window on the second floor, in case someone with strong martial arts broke through the window.

Xu Zhanping went fast and came quickly, and when he came, he was followed by Liu Pingzi, a well-known gentleman in Yangzhou Mansion.

Liu Pingzi was dressed in a coarse linen suit, his gray hair was hastily tied with a wooden hairpin, and his eyes were as sharp as an eagle's falcon.

He was not on duty today, but he heard that Xu Zhanping had a murder here, so he hurried over from home, because he didn't have his precious toolbox with him.

had no choice but to make the little apprentice Chen Xingzi go to the government to get it first, and he himself followed Xu Zhanping over to see the situation first.

"Come in, two of you. Fang Gu had already been waiting at the door of the Aromatic Building, and when she saw Xu Zhanping and Liu Pingzi, she hurried to meet the two of them.

In order to avoid attracting attention, Fang Gu had closed the building a quarter of an hour ago, pretending to have a distinguished guest charter. Fortunately, this incident happened from time to time, so not many people were surprised.

Fang Gu led the way, Xu Zhanping followed behind Liu Pingzi, and the three of them went up to the second floor before and after.

As soon as Liu Pingzi arrived at the door of the private room of this day, he pushed aside Aunt Fang and trotted all the way to the corpse.

He first opened the corpse's eyelids one by one, and then pulled a silver needle out of the hair on the back of his head and pierced it at the tip of the corpse's right finger.

Fang Gu stood outside the door with some taboo and didn't go in, while Xu Zhanping held the scabbard and guarded Liu Pingzi's side.

At this time, there was a rush of footsteps outside, and Liu Pingzi shouted without replying: "Xing'er, come over with the teacher's box." ”

Xu Zhanping turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw Liu Pingzi's little apprentice, Chen Xingzi, holding a big wooden box and walking through the door with his feet raised, and said in his mouth: "Yes, Master." ”

However, before Xu Zhanping could go over and take over, Liu Pingzi at his feet first sat down on his feet, and then pointed to the corpse with trembling hands and shouted: "Alive, alive!"