Chang'an One hundred and eight squares, like a chessboard looking down on the world, majestic and neat.

Among them, Beizhen Anling is located in the Taiping Fang in front of the Hanguang Gate of Taiji Palace.

The North Town Security Order is responsible for supervising the security of Chang'an, and the South Town Security Order is responsible for the security of the royal family. But since Shennong established the Great Zhou, there has been no real royal family to protect, and there are only some old eunuchs and grandmothers left in the palace because they have nowhere to go, and Shennong does not like to kill innocents indiscriminately, so he occupies the magpie's nest and enjoys the high-walled compound of Taiji Palace. In addition to cleaning the palace every day and sorting out books and utensils for the court, the old eunuchs and grandmothers have no other duties, nor do they have the sorrow of the death of the king and the tiger, and their days are much more leisurely than in the previous dynasty.

Chen Zhigui, the palm print eunuch of the previous dynasty, is still in control of the jade seal of the Son of Heaven. Although it is a jade seal of the previous dynasty, Shennong said that the emperor and queen ignore the government and politics, and will not make any extraneous branches to make any Great Zhou State seal. Today's Da Zhou only recognizes Zhang Jialing, not the royal order, and the jade seal in Chen Zhigui's hand is not even a symbol.

But every day, he would still walk out of the imperial city with the emperor Fengtian Baohan with the jade seal of Shura in his arms, and come to Suzaku Street to wait and see if the new Chang'an is really Chang'an.

A fast horse with a command flag galloped from the west, and the sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and stopped steadily in front of Chen Zhigui. Immediately, the young man dressed in blue brocade neatly turned over and dismounted, and bowed to the palm print eunuch who was looking at him with a smile.

Chen Zhigui held the treasure letter in his hand, bowed to the young man and said, "General Xiu, but you want to go into the imperial city to find Prime Minister Zhang?"

The young man was none other than General Chang'anwei, Xiu Yanshu, and he didn't have the gentle smile he usually had, and he said: "The Jinna assassin entered Beijing to commit murder and was about to go to Xingqing Palace. ”

Chen Zhigui said with a smile: "With General Xiu here, how can Chang'an not be in Chang'an, the minions are all cheap, and they die to defend the imperial city, whether they die well or die." ”

Xiu Yan said: "I have no minions in Da Zhou, and there are no untouchables, please Chen Mink Temple Mo Zai has such a statement." ”

Chen Zhigui still said with a kind face: "The old slave has been a slave all his life, how can he say that he can change it." I have been a lackey for 50 years, and now I have only been a person for 10 years, and I am not used to how to behave. ”

Xiu Yan Shu was reluctant to say more to him, not so much because he didn't like these pretentious eunuchs, but because he didn't want to face the old Shura system left over from the Great Zhou. These remnants of the former dynasty who can't leave the palace and become human again, are like tattered patches on brand new clothes, no matter how decent the new clothes are, they can't make people feel comfortable looking.

He was here only based on the distance, and calculated that the procession transporting the corpse would pass at this time. Raising his eyes to look east, he saw three Chang'an guards in the distance with porters who specialize in coolies pulling a cart slowly.

Xiu Yan said to Chen Zhigui: "I am in public office, and I will not accompany you." "Then we will walk towards the convoy of corpses.

"Wait. Chen Zhigui shouted to Xiu Yan Zhuo.

Xiu Yan Shu patiently turned his head and said, "What else is going on in Chen Mink Temple." ”

Chen Zhigui said: "General Xiu, Buddhism has eighteen worlds, six roots, six senses, and six dusts. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is just the color in the eyes, the sound in the ears, the fragrance in the nose, the taste in the mouth, the touch on the body, and the law in the brain. Our family is old, the old eyes are dizzy, I can't hear the sound of the world, I can't recognize the smell of the world, only this nose is left, and I can still smell some fragrance. ”

Xiu Yan said: "Chen Mink Temple has something to say, there is no need to play dumb riddles with Ben General. ”

Chen Zhigui turned around and left with the treasure letter in his arms, and said as he walked: "What you see in your eyes may not be true." ”

Xiu Yan Shu didn't take these words to heart, and walked quickly to the convoy, but saw that the convoy was not the two people reported before, but three people, and there was a woman in white with a high nose.

After checking the scars on the chests of the three people, it was the same as the previous three, and ordered someone to send them to Beizhen Anling. Just before covering the straw mat, Xiu Yanshui suddenly felt something, and once again lifted the straw mat on the woman in white and stared at it for a moment.

"Sure enough......" confirmed that what he expected was correct, turned over his horse, and went straight to Xingqing Palace.

Xingqing Palace is located in the northwest of Dongshi, in the Chunlang Gate of Chang'an East Gate, when Xiu Yan Shu arrived, Nangong has been waiting for a long time.

Nangong saw him coming over and said, "You'd better find something." ”

Xiu Yan said: "Originally, there was only one discovery, but now there are two." ”

Nangong said: "Do you still want me to ask you which two you are?"

Xiu Yan said, "I'm just not sure which of these two discoveries is more important?"

Nangong said: "That doesn't matter. ”

Xiu Yan Shu remembered what the big fat man Wei Hongye said: "When did you become so annoying." ”

Nangong said: "It has always been like this. ”

Xiu Yan said: "Okay, don't talk nonsense. My first discovery was that the bodies of the dead smelled of iron. ”

Nangong said: "What kind of iron smell?"

Xiu Yan said: "The smell of iron, the smell of blood and sweetness after the sword is rusted. ”

Nangong said: "It was a corpse that bled to death, how strange it is to smell blood." ”

Xiu Yan took out the saber at his waist and handed it to Nangong: "You smell it." ”

Nangong took the Chang'an Weitepe rainforest knife, leaned under his nose and sniffed it, frowning, "Does it smell?"

Xiu Yan took out another dagger from his arms and said, "You smell this again." ”

Nangong pulled out the dagger, but saw that the blade was rusty and mottled, and there was a smell of rust without getting close: "There is indeed a smell, which is often smelled on the battlefield, but your bloodless embroidery knife is not easy to find." ”

Xiu Yan said: "So I didn't find it before, although yesterday's corpse also smelled, but it's not strange that there are iron rusts in the Zhen'an Order." It's strange that there is a female corpse today, and it also smells like this. Although it smells of blood, the smell of blood that flows naturally is different from that of blood cut by a sharp blade. ”

Nangong said: "So what, since it is a wound cut by a sharp weapon, it is not a big discovery that the murder weapon is an iron weapon." ”

Xiu Yan said: "In addition, there is another taste. ”

Nangong said: "You have to ask me to answer a word?"

Xiu Yan said: "It's a woman's incense." Carmine. ”

Nangong said: "You said that the deceased was originally a woman. ”

Xiu Yan said: "The butcher also has it." ”

Nangong said: "The murderer is a woman?"

Xiu Yan said: "Not only a woman, but the deceased will be infected with this smell, which means that the deceased had personal contact with the assassin before his death. ”

Nangong said: "And then?"

Xiu Yan said: "My Zhen'an ordered the results of the autopsy, although the murder weapon used by the assassin when killing people was as thin as a cicada's wing, the wound was five inches long. And among the deceased, the fattest butcher had a chest more than nine inches from the back of his heart. To inflict such a wound, the blade of the murder weapon should be at least five inches long and nine inches deep. How can such an artifact kill people in public, but no one sees it. If you shoot with a crossbow from a distance, how to recover the murder weapon. Moreover, the two deceased in my Chang'an Wei were all monitored in the dark before they died, and their behavior was recorded, and they had absolutely no contact with women. ”

Nangong said: "As far as I know, there were three people in Chang An Wei at the time, and there was one person left." ”

Xiu Yan said: "I am delirious and have been imprisoned back to Zhen'an Prison." ”

Nangong said: "Have you investigated him." ”

Xiu Yan said: "I am innocent, and I have been in Chang'an Wei for seven years. There is nothing suspicious. ”

Nangong said: "Delirious, will you be pretended?" ”

Xiu Yan said: "It is indeed possible, but in his few words, there is a clear account of what happened last night, and it should still be him at the time of the crime." ”

Nangong said: "So your problem now is that you don't know what the murder weapon is?"

Xiu Yan said: "In addition, the flesh and skin of the deceased's wound were not turned out, indicating that the speed of the attack was very fast......

Nangong interrupted: "It's not so troublesome, how to commit the murder, what kind of utensils are used, as long as you can predict the location of the next murder accurate, I have my own way to find out." ”

Xiu Yan said: "This is the second discovery. The assassin's killing trajectory should be a return to the dragon on your chessboard. ”

Nangong said: "Your herald has already mentioned it, but there are no new victims on the way you came, where did she die." ”

Xiu Yan said: "The junction of Daozheng Fang and Dongshi is located in the south of Xingqing Palace. ”

Nangong raised his hand, and golden rays bloomed in his palm, crisscrossing and crisscrossing to form a miniature small chessboard.

He took the whereabouts of his son and marked the location of the six dead on the chessboard. After thinking for a while, according to the actual scale of the building, the scope of Xingqing Palace was changed from one grid to three grids.

Frowning and pondering for a moment, he suddenly said, "No, it's not Huilongzheng." This is not a chess game, but Qimen Dunjia, all five are fierce, and nine deaths and one life. Take the place where the crime occurred as the door of death, the door of death is in the east, the door of life is in the west, and the place of death is nine ......."

Nangong rotated in place until the chessboard and Chang'an's terrain were facing the same direction, and suddenly turned around: "It's Zhen'an Order! The next target is Zhen'an Order!"