Today's weather is sunny, even the old house of the Gao family is sprinkled with golden sunshine, and the willow leaves are gently swaying against the small lake in the breeze, just like Qin Ke's mood now, as he looked at the old man who looked very idle on the other side of the tea table, he only felt that he had checked the wrong route at all.

"Drink tea. Gao Cheng, who woke up from last night's hangover, seemed to be in a good mood, and was very satisfied with the fact that the two juniors knew that they had come to visit him today, so he personally made tea to entertain the two.

Qin Ke and Cai Yan glanced at each other, and then picked up the tea bowl and drank the tea, although they all wanted to get something about Xia Ran from the mouth of the old man Gao Cheng, but if it was an inquiry on the surface, no one knew if it would startle the snake.

It's not that Qin Ke doesn't have confidence in the Gao family, it's just that in Qin Ke's opinion, the Gao family has no motive at all to secretly hide armor and rebel - the Gao family itself is on the side of Zhuge Wanling in the court, and his own son is Gao Changgong, the general of Jingwu, if even Gao Changgong has to rebel, Zhuge Wanling should have died a few years ago.

Therefore, Qin Ke only set the hypothesis for the time being: there is someone inside the Gao family who colludes with outsiders, and Gao Cheng does not know about it, so that only that person needs to be traced, not only is it not harmful to the Gao family, but it is a great good thing.

"How about this tea?" Gao Cheng naturally didn't know that the two little guys in front of him had ghosts in their hearts, after he stepped down from his official position, he was now an idle old man who raised birds at home, and he was not too directly related to the affairs of the court, so he treated everything very calmly.

"Uh-huh, yes, pretty good. Qin Ke replied vaguely.

"Cow chews peony. Gao Cheng sneered, and then turned his gaze to Cai Yan, "Little girl, your father is Cai Yong, that old boy can drink tea, I think your tea tasting skills will not be bad." ”

Cai Yan was actually confident just after tasting it, and he spoke extremely briskly: "This should be the acre of Bimei planted by Uncle Gao himself, right? It is said that this is the tea tree that Uncle Gao poured out by himself, although the source is from the Longjing that is often found in the south, but Uncle Gao, you have cultivated it for nearly ten years, and it is very different." ”

"People say that Longjing is unique, green, fragrant, sweet, and beautiful, but Uncle Gao's Bimei tastes not strong at first, and even a little bland, but after a while, the taste is sweet and seems to be able to come from the throat, moisturize the lips and tongue, and linger for a long time. It's like a beauty covering her face, which may not be stunning at first glance, but the longer it passes, the more it can show its dust. ”

Gao Cheng's eyes lit up slightly, and he laughed: "Yes, she is indeed a powerful girl, she can tell the true meaning of my beautiful woman so quickly, and I didn't invite the wrong person for this cup of tea." ”

As he spoke, he looked at the clear color of the tea again, and said with a bit of sarcasm: "If it is heavy makeup, it is just rouge and vulgar powder, and what kind of beauty can it be? ”

He was self-absorbed, but Qin Ke could only be stunned when he sat on the side, and he couldn't even have anything to do with this tea drink, and at this time, Cai Yan suddenly quietly leaned into his ear and whispered a laugh: "Don't listen to him say that he is very high, my father has said how many times he has been to the Qinglou when he was young, and how many times he has been a 'beauty' with heavy makeup." ”

This made Qin Ke laugh out loud all of a sudden, and then hurriedly and slightly embarrassed covered his mouth, pretending that he was just choking on tea and began to cough.

Cai Yan, the initiator of Qin Ke's rudeness in front of Gao Cheng, still maintained a calm smile, and his posture of renewing tea for Gao Cheng was even more elegant as a dot painting, as if what she said just now was not what she said, and she talked about the short and long of tea with Gao Cheng in a soft voice.

Of course, all this is just foreshadowing, and after another quarter of an hour, Cai Yan talked about spices just right along the taste of "tea fragrance", and naturally turned the matter to "Xia dye" spices.

"Kasumi dye, that thing is not bad, although the aroma is strong but not pungent, but it is too complicated to make. Old Man Gao Cheng didn't know the mystery in Cai Yan's words, and replied with a smile, "But I heard that many of you young people in Ding'an City in Tang Kingdom like to make sachets to wear." ”

Cai Yan nodded, with a look of regret: "Yes, I originally thought that Jianye City was so big, it shouldn't be too difficult to buy some Xia dye, but unfortunately several incense shops said that it was not easy to buy goods, so I had to wait for a month." ”

Qin Ke didn't speak, but his eyes flickered slightly when he lowered his head and drank tea.

He knew that what Cai Yan said was a lie, although this Jianye did not have a large audience, there would always be some inventory in a few big incense shops, but the tiger side had already said hello, so that those incense shops had unified their caliber, and said that after the big war between Tang Guo and Jing Wu, it affected the freight, so he was not afraid that the Gao family would notice anything.

Gao Cheng and Cai Yan fell in love, and they didn't want to see this little girl's regrets, so they naturally pondered, and said after a while: "I remember that I have entered some at home recently, if you want it, I will give it to you." ”

Cai Yan made a surprised expression and said a little exaggeratedly: "This makes it, Uncle Gao, don't you use your own family?"

Gao Cheng shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't like these things, most of the incense used on weekdays is sandalwood, but a few ladies in the house are still a little interested, so they just entered some and used them as rewards." ”

Female dependents?

Cai Yan narrowed his eyes, and his voice became sweeter: "Then thank you Uncle Gao, but I'm curious, which sisters also like Xia Dye, if you have the opportunity, you can get to know each other." ”

While they were talking, a stalwarf-looking guard with a long knife at his waist and a sturdy figure came straight up, presumably saying that someone from one family had come to visit and asked the old man if he wanted to receive him.

For this kind of thing, Gao Cheng only felt that it was cumbersome, so in the end, he just waved his hand and asked Gao Yanzong to meet him on the grounds of hangover, and the guard was also used to this kind of thing, and he didn't even show a little surprise, and turned away.

But Qin Ke's gaze stayed on the guard for a long time.

The guard wasn't good-looking, and even had a hideous scar on his cheek, which had completely destroyed one of his eyes.

But it is such a person who shows a lone wolf-like temperament all over his body, but a red sachet hangs from his waist, which is embroidered with the pattern of mandarin ducks playing in the water.

The smell seems to be Kasumi dyeing.

Qin Ke stretched out a hand and gently began to write in Cai Yan's palm.

An hour later, the two finally left in Gao Cheng's somewhat reluctant reluctance, and immediately let the hired carriage go straight to the school mansion after leaving the house.

"The person you are talking about is the personal guard of Old Man Gao, called Gong Wu, who has a little grandmaster cultivation, and there are many people under his hands. Tiger just went to the case file and rummaged through it, and found the name of this person.

However, Qin Ke now has a completely different guess in his heart: "If you say, the person in the warehouse was not killed by Xue Yang, but this Gong Wu? As far as the knife on his body is concerned, it is not difficult to do this." ”

Cai Yan looked at him, his eyes lit up slightly: "You mean, someone may imitate Xue Yang's knife technique and kill the people in the warehouse?"

Although it was just a guess, it had a certain relevance, after all, they didn't find the sachet on the "guy" who had come into contact with the sachet, if he didn't carry the sachet, his mission was unlikely to come into contact with the sachet, and why did he leave some crumbs of the sachet in his fingernails?

There is an explanation for this, that is, when he was killed, he scratched someone's sachet, so there was something left in his fingernails.

And the dignified tiger's words added a halo to this speculation: "Just when you went to Gaofu, I asked people to clean the warehouse again, and indeed found some red chips in the cracks of the wooden floor, and later confirmed that it was Xia Dye. ”

After a pause, he said again: "In this way, I will send someone to keep an eye on him, as long as he is out of the Gao Mansion, there will always be clues." If he is really the one who killed the mouth, then maybe we can find new clues from him. ”