Chapter 6 6. Ice and Snow Face
Zhou Ziqin felt that his life had never been so complete. He felt that he was shining brightly and dazzlingly when he walked on the street.
The reason is that the person on the left who followed him on patrol on horseback was Yang Chonggu, a well-known detective in the capital, and the person on the right who was casually admiring the street scene was even worse, the King Kui of this dynasty Li Shubai.
With two people like this on business trips, I am simply a winner in life, right?
It's just that...the business trip here seems a bit out of date...
"Ma'am, your pile of lotus pods looks pretty good, it's tender and tender—it seems to be spread to the middle of the street, what if someone rides too fast and kicks you to the ground? Yes, yes, yes... Hurry up, I will help you." You move to the back..."
"Hey, big brother, although your sugar figurine blows well, it is not clean if it is placed on such a dusty street, right? Let me give you an idea, you go to blow it under the big banyan tree over there, come on Come and let me help you carry it..."
"Second girl, I didn't mean you, you are such a beautiful woman, why do you come out to sell mutton in the street? Yes, the laws of the Tang Dynasty did not prohibit women from selling mutton, but you look like you are still showing your face, and all the big men are vying to buy it. Your meat is blocked in the streets, isn't it..."
The second girl held a knife in her hand and gave Zhou Ziqin a look: "What's the matter? The dignified Young Master Zhou is here to take care of these messy things on the street? If you have the ability, go to the mountain and find Prince Kui quickly! All the people in the world are grateful you!"
Zhou Ziqin had a lotus pod in his left hand and a sugar figurine in his right. Standing in front of her, he was powerless to fight back: "This...the cavalry has already gone up the mountain, and it won't help me if I go..."
While the second girl was chopping ribs for the guests, her mouth became even sharper: "Then you have time to go to Yizhuang. Not only is it cool there, but there are still many dead bodies waiting for Zhou Shao to arrest you and show your skills!"
Huang Zixia watched them bickering with interest from behind, while sizing up the second girl.She is about twenty years old, petite, with a beautiful round face, and has the same pink and fair skin as most girls in Chengdu, so she is very cute.
Zhou Ziqin was completely defeated, so he could only turn around and mount his horse in dismay, and then said to Huang Zixia: "She said uprising Zhuang. ...In short, I have no clue, just waiting for you to come and help me!"
"You and I will go over there to have a look," Huang Zixia said, looking back at Li Shubai, and said softly, "Your body has not recovered yet, so you can't be tired, let alone things like autopsies, Ziqin and I just go over and check."
Li Shubai nodded and said, "Don't be too tired, you have to rest after running around for several days."
Huang Zixia felt a slight warmth flow through her heart, nodded and said: "Yes."
"Also... pay homage to Princess Qile for me."
Zhou Ziqin, who used to climb the window of Yizhuang and sneak in to see the dead body, is now in his prime. He swaggered and rode in through the gate, and directly greeted the guard inside: "Uncle Jiang, let me come and see the most beautiful corpse in Chengdu." coming!" Uncle Jiang smiled all over his face, with a trace of unnatural embarrassment on his face: "Oh, don't catch the head, you are too serious! Come and see again?" Zhou Ziqin got down from his horse and said, "This time I not only watched it myself, but also brought others to watch it. This is our newcomer... Uh, hurry up, he is very good at solving cases, I'll bring him to watch it. " Uncle Jiang quickly nodded and bowed to them, looked at Huang Zixia, and frowned suspiciously: "This little brother... I seem to have seen it somewhere?" Huang Zixia, who had dealt with him a lot before, smiled, and kept silent to avoid trouble. Uncle Jiang frowned and thought about it, and when he saw Zhou Ziqin walking in with people, he quickly stopped: "Stop arresting heads, stop arresting heads..." Zhou Ziqin looked back at him: "What's wrong?" "That...that corpse..." He hesitated to speak, with a look of embarrassment on his face. "It's rotten? Can't it?" Zhou Ziqin was anxious, "No way! Why did it rot so quickly in such a cold ice cellar?" "It's not, but..." Old Uncle Jiang looked guilty and almost bit his tongue when he spoke, "A woman came here before, she said she was the sister of the deceased, and wanted to see her body. I don't think she Like a bad person, I just took her down." "Where is she now?" Zhou Ziqin asked. "I'm worshiping inside..." Old Man Jiang touched his sleeve, a piece was hanging there, and he didn't know how much the woman gave him.
Yizhuang in Chengdu is one of the places Huang Zixia is most familiar with. She first went to the file cabinet in Yizhuang, took out the autopsy transcript that would be kept here as usual, and opened it to read the records. The latest volume is a copy of "Songhuali Fu Zhai's Double Murder Case". The autopsy was conducted by Jiang Songlin, an old magistrate from the county. She looked at it carefully, and then followed Zhou Ziqin into the morgue. Inside are a few empty bamboo beds, and there is a cellar entrance on the inside of the house.They went down the steps, deeper and colder.Chengdu is hot in summer, and it is difficult to keep the corpse, so when the Yizhuang was rebuilt two years ago, Yuxuan and her discussed a solution, dug several cellars deep in the morgue, and built the walls with thick green bricks , only open a few small dampers for ventilation.Thick doors are also set up, and ice is taken out and placed inside in winter. If the in and out are not particularly frequent in midsummer, the ice inside may not melt all summer, which is very suitable for preserving corpses. The further you go down the steps, the colder the air inside becomes.And in this coldness, only the small lamps in their hands cast a little light, shaking on the surrounding stone walls, making them look even colder. Zhou Ziqin led them into the small room of Xuanzi, where there was faint candlelight, and a woman was standing in front of a corpse, motionless. Although the commoner clothes on her body and the simple bun were simple, but her slender and well-proportioned figure made them immediately recognize who she was. It is the Gongsun aunt of this generation, Gongsun Yuan. Huang Zixia immediately knew who the most beautiful corpse in Chengdu Zhou Ziqin was talking about was. The two of them approached, and Gongsun Yuan glanced back. The candlelight was refracted by the surrounding ice, like several dancing rainbows lingering around her, making her impossible to stare at, and even the tears on her face seemed Crystal clear. She raised her hand to wipe away her tears, saluted them, and said in a hoarse voice: "Zhou Butou, forgive me! I came here from Yangzhou, but I couldn't see the little girl for the last time, because I was afraid it would be a lifelong regret, so That’s why I begged Old Brother Jiang to let me come in and have a look, and I also ask Catcher Zhou to forgive me.” Zhou Ziqin quickly said: "It's okay, as long as you don't move or touch." "I know...I just stand here and watch, I never touch..." she said, the tears she just wiped came out again, "I know... Ah Ruan must be very sick lying here. cold." Zhou Ziqin said: "This case is actually considered closed. She and her lover should definitely die in love. There are distant relatives in Wen Yang's family, and he said that he is willing to collect the two of them together, so that they can be buried as soon as possible. I don't know what the girl means... ..." Gongsun Yuan looked at Fu Xinruan's body, reluctantly nodded her head, and said, "Or... wait for my sisters to come over, at least let them see Ah Ruan for the last time." Zhou Ziqin nodded and said, "That's okay." Gongsun Yuan thanked him again. Huang Zixia walked up to the corpse with a lamp, and signaled Zhou Ziqin to come over.Zhou Ziqin saw that the white cloth covering the corpse was only pulled up to the neck by Gongsun Yuan, exposing Fu Xinruan's face, so he lifted off the whole white cloth, exposing her whole body. Huang Zixia carefully illuminated Fu Xinruan with the lamp.Her clothes were fairly neat, gray purple shirt, blue skirt, plain silk shoes, etc., which were no different from those recorded in the autopsy file.And her figure, as Zhou Ziqin said, is a rare and perfect corpse.Although her muscles are blue and hard from the cold, her body is smooth and delicate, and her figure is plump and fit. Presumably when she was alive, she was a beauty who would be too long if she added a point, and would be too short if she took a point off. . After scanning it once, she focused on Fu Xinruan's hands. Her fingers were long and well-proportioned, and the tip of her right finger really showed an uneven black color as said in the autopsy file. On her bluish-white skin, Especially conspicuous. She looked at it for a long time, then raised her hand to wipe it off a few times, but it was cold and did not wipe off.She bent down and smelled again, but the body had been frozen for a long time, and it was obvious that there was no smell left. She frowned slightly, put down Fu Xinruan's hand, and checked her whole body.Zhou Ziqin said: "I have checked it twice, and it is true that he died of taking poison." "Well...it is indeed." She nodded affirmatively, and lightly pulled the white cloth to cover the body again.It was extremely cold in the ice cellar. They were all dressed in summer clothes. They were talking here for an autopsy. Their hands and feet were already icy cold. Seeing that there was no other discovery, Huang Zixia said to Gongsun Yuan: "Ma'am, I'm afraid the lights will fumigate too much ice. Why don't you go up first." Gongsun Yuan nodded, stared silently at Fu Xinruan who was lying there quietly, and walked up the steps. Huang Zixia went to Tianzihao's small room again, and the body of Princess Qile really stopped here.A round face, those beautiful almond eyes have been closed forever.The poisonous needle on her body was removed, but her body still had that bluish-black color, which clearly showed severe toxicity. Zhou Ziqin said behind her: "Don't watch, he died of poisoning." She lowered Princess Qile's collar slightly, and saw that the needle holes on her neck and chest had turned into small black holes. Zhou Ziqin inspected it carefully, and said: "These needles seem to be urgent, fast and dense. They should be fired by a machine, not pierced by someone." Huang Zixia nodded, thinking, Li Shubai was able to avoid those poisonous needles at that time, it was amazing - maybe, this is an instinct developed through long-term experience. She thought about the assassin again, but she didn't have a clue, thinking that since Li Shubai was familiar with him, she should have already grasped the matter, so she didn't think about it anymore, and lightened the body of Princess Qile again with a white cloth. Take it lightly.
The old man Jiang was caught for committing a crime today, and he was planning to make a contribution to the crime, so he had already prepared a water basin and refreshments for them. Huang Zixia cleaned her hands in the basin, and then asked Gongsun Yuan to stay: "Mother, come and have some refreshments with us. Regarding your little sister, we still have some things to check with you, please let me know." Gongsun Yuan nodded and knelt down with them at the table.Zhou Ziqin personally shared tea with them and brought them refreshments graciously. Gongsun Yuan didn't care about refreshments, she just held the teacup and said: "Eighteen years ago, we had six sisters. Because each admired the other's art, we became sworn sisters with different surnames in Yangzhou. We agreed to support each other and depend on each other for life. At that time, I had an old friend who spent a lot of money to build Yunshao Garden for us, so the six of us were called Yunshao Six Daughters." Zhou Ziqin said: "I also heard this from Jinnu in Beijing." "Yes, Jin Nu is the disciple of my second sister Wanzhi. After my second sister disappeared, when it comes to Yangzhou pipa, she is the number one." Huang Zixia didn't know if she knew Jin Nu was dead, but she thought, Gongsun Yuan must not know that Jin Nu died at the hands of her second sister Mei Wanzhi who had been missing for many years. "We all have our own strengths. For example, I am good at sword dancing, my third sister Lauder is good at soft dancing, and my fourth sister Yin Luyi's singing voice in the past is known as the best in the world... and A Ruan is different from us. She is not someone who comes out to show her face, because what she is good at is choreography," Gongsun Yuan sighed, and said softly, "A few years ago, Ah Ruan was invited by several bands in central Sichuan to help them arrange a big song. Originally it was said that we would go back in two months, but who knows that she got to know Wen Yang, so she postponed it by one month. We heard from her letter that Wen Yang's wife died young, and we thought it was nothing to be a sequel, so we let her stay. Here it is. Later, because Wen Yang’s parents objected to his son marrying a girl from Le nationality, Ah Ruan returned to Yangzhou for a few years. Until the autumn of the year before last, she reunited with Wen Yang in a foreign place and knew that both his parents had died, so she followed him. He arrived in Chengdu. The month before last, she wrote to us to inform us that Wenyang’s filial piety period had expired and the two of us were about to get married. We sisters are in touch with each other, and the third younger sister in Puzhou and the fourth younger sister in Suzhou have also made appointments to come together. .Only because I am the eldest sister, I wanted to come and help her arrange the wedding as soon as possible, so I set off earlier than the others. But when I arrived in Chengdu, what greeted me was Ah Ruan's sad news..." When she said this, she still couldn't help being excited, there were tears in her eyes, but she forced herself not to let them fall.She looked at Zhou Ziqin and said, "I heard that you, Mr. Zhou, are the chief arrester of Chengdu appointed by the emperor. I think you must also find it impossible—my little sister, Ruan, after waiting for so long, is finally about to marry her lover." They are bound to each other. Now they have no entanglement and love each other deeply, why did they both choose to die in love before getting married? I think there must be something inside!" Zhou Ziqin nodded and said, "This is indeed against common sense!" Huang Zixia asked again: "Wen Yang is outside, what's going wrong?" "No. I also found a neighbor in Wenyang. It is said that after his parents and wife passed away, he lived in seclusion and didn't have much contact with others. Because his family has forest assets and a good income, he only reads and draws at home every day. , is a very mild-tempered person. This is also very consistent with what Ah Ruan told us in the letter." "Then, was there anything unusual about your sixth younger sister before she died for love?" "I don't know... Ah Ruan is good at choreography and music, so she usually lives in seclusion, and only rents a small house in Chengdu, with a maid by her side. Now that she is about to marry into the Wen family, that servant has long been I can’t find it when I was sent home,” Gongsun Yuan said with tears in her eyes, shaking her head, “and the bands she usually helped choreograph, only said that she went to them to say goodbye two days before she died in love. , with a radiant face, it is really unexpected that she would commit suicide together with the man a few days later..." Huang Zixia thoughtfully, nodded and said: "In this way, it is indeed very strange. After waiting for ten years, all obstacles are gone, but the two committed suicide before getting married. No matter how you think about it, it is incredible. " "So, I hope that Mr. Zhou can thoroughly investigate this case again. Gongsun Yuan is very grateful!" She looked at Zhou Ziqin, her tearful eyes made Zhou Ziqin nod unconsciously, and said, "Don't worry, I'm here It is my duty to arrest the chief executive of Chengdu in this case!"
Huang Zixia felt very depressed. On the way back from Yizhuang, she looked at Zhou Ziqin's face that was so overjoyed and restrained that it seemed a little distorted, and felt that she was really suffocated to death. She had an idea in her mind, to kick Zhou Ziqin off the horse with a flying kick, so that his secretly smug face would be swollen. When Gongsun Yuan was sent away and only two people were left standing in the yamen, Huang Zixia finally couldn't help but give Zhou Ziqin a glance: "What did you take?" Zhou Ziqin was proud and looked at her with admiration: "Chonggu, you are really good at predicting things! How do you know that I took something?" "Nonsense, you can tell by your face." She stretched out her hand towards him. Zhou Ziqin quickly took out a lock of hair from his sleeve and put it in her palm, looked at her like a dog's leg and smiled: "Oh, I really feel something is wrong, although it looks like arsenic poisoning, don't you think Is the black color of the corpse's fingers strange?" Huang Zixia looked at the lock of hair, breathed a sigh of relief, and threw it back to him: "I thought you secretly cut a piece of meat or something." Zhou Ziqin was shocked immediately: "Chonggu, how can you be so cruel? How could a pure and kind-hearted Haoerlang like me do such a thing? Besides, the meat is frozen hard, so it's really hard to cut!" If it was easy to cut, did you just attack Fu Xinruan's body?Huang Zixia was speechless, so she could only change the subject and ask, "Can the hair be tested?" "Reluctantly...it depends on luck." He said, and put the lock of hair into his arms again. Huang Zixia remembered one more thing, and asked, "You said earlier that you found that Fusha?" "Yeah, its leg injury is not serious, but it has been stuck in the thorns for two or three days, and it is hungry enough." Zhou Ziqin hurriedly took her to the stable to see Fusha. Although she was already in a state of embarrassment, when Na Fusha saw her figure, he happily moved up to her, turned his head and rubbed against her body, very intimate. Huang Zixia hugged its head, feeling very happy in her heart.But seeing that it was really skinny, I couldn't help sighing, and hurried to the side to get a few liters of beans for it, and added it to the forage. Xiao Xia from Zhou Ziqin also sneaked over and ate a few mouthfuls.Zhou Ziqin pressed its nose and pushed it away, saying: "Fortunately, that Fusha has a good temper. If you want to get rid of evil, see if it will kick you away with a hoof." "If you want to get rid of evil, you don't dare to lock it with other horses," Huang Zixia said, and finally smiled a little, and said, "Hurry up and check Fu Xinruan's hair, I hope there is something Find." "Oh, I'll go right away." Zhou Ziqin said, and ran to the back. Huang Zixia took a picture at the gate of his courtyard, and saw A Bi and A Yan sitting in the courtyard calmly turning over the flower rope, the two bronze figures were standing on the porch, a row of skulls of cattle, sheep and pigs on the window sill, it seemed that Zhou Ziqin After arriving in Chengdu, things intensified. With Li Shubai in mind, she left the envoy's mansion and headed towards the inn. Chengdu is located in a low-lying area, surrounded by mountains, and there are not many opportunities to see sunlight throughout the year.Today's summer, the climate feels a little hot and humid.Huang Zixia has long been used to it, and only feels that the direction of the wind flow is an arc that she is extremely familiar with. She was familiar with the streets and alleys of Chengdu Mansion by heart, so she arrived in front of the inn at the entrance of the alley after many turns and detours.After returning to her room and changing clothes, she hurried to the next door to listen to the sound, to see if Li Shubai had fallen asleep.Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the door, Li Shubai said inside, "Come in." Huang Zixia opened the door and went in to see that Li Shubai was sitting by the window drinking tea.Seeing her coming in, he gestured to the chair in front of her. Huang Zixia hesitated for a while, then sat down, refilled his cup with tea, and asked, "Does your lord know who is the corpse we are going to see?" Li Shubai's gaze was still on the thousands of households in Chengdu Mansion outside the window, and he only said lightly: "Fu Xinruan, the six daughters of Yunshao." Huang Zixia really admired his ability to predict things like a god: "How did the prince guess it?" "Fu Xinruan recently died in the Chengdu Mansion. The cause of death is suspicious. Could it be that Ziqin didn't know about it? He obviously hasn't figured it out yet and needs you to help him." She nodded and said, "This matter is quite suspicious. There is a strange black mark on Fu Xinruan's right finger. Ziqin is going to start with it. First, check to see if there is any problem with the poison." He also stopped talking, just looked out of the window, thoughtful. Huang Zixia accompanied him to look at the scenery outside. The slanting light of the setting sun shines on the city through the clouds and mist, creating a dense golden mist.There are hollyhocks and hibiscus everywhere in the city, and even the warm and humid atmosphere looks bright. "Chengdu Mansion is really a good place, isn't it?" While she was in deep thought, she suddenly heard Li Shubai say this.She nodded subconsciously, Li Shubai stood up and said, "Let's go, take me to see this place." Huang Zixia was slightly surprised, and asked, "Your Highness won't take a rest?" He shook his head and said, "I want to see where you used to go." She let out a "huh", thought for a while, and asked, "Look at the places I... used to go to?" Li Shubai nodded and said, "Perhaps... it will help your family's case?" Although Huang Zixia felt that this was an excuse, she was too embarrassed to ask again, so she followed him out to the busiest place in Chengdu Mansion. It was already dusk, and the setting sun shone gently on the streets and alleys of Chengdu.In the streets and alleys paved with bluestone, some shops were closed, and several lights were lit at the door of some shops. According to the laws of this dynasty, there should be a curfew in Chengdu Mansion.However, since the Anshi Rebellion, the government regulations have been abolished, and even the curfew in the capital is not very strict. There are often night returnees near the East and West Markets in Chang'an, and the Chengdu government is far away from the capital. The so-called curfew is in name only. They walked all the way, there were embroidery workshops and brocade weaving workshops along the way, and the hanging brocade embroidery became more and more brilliant under the light.Both Shu Embroidery and Shu Brocade were crowned in the Tang Dynasty, and people at that time competed for them.Her eyes fell on the sachets embroidered with five-color auspicious patterns, and she remembered that she had thought of embroidering such a beautiful thing and hanging it on that person's waist, but in the end, she had no time and skills, so she kept throwing it on In the closet in the house— By now, the unfinished sachet has probably been cleared out by later generations and discarded.
Shudi Night Street has the most snacks. Huang Zixia bought roasted goose wings and goose paws with the money collected from the captives. After thinking about it, he handed the goose wings to Li Shubai and said, "My lord, you are soaring in the blue clouds, so I give you the wings; while I am down-to-earth in Shu, Give me the goose paw." Li Shubai looked down at her face looking up at him. Among the hustle and bustle of people, the lights of the night street were on and off, shining brightly on her eyes. The stars in the sky, the pearls on the blue sea, this is the only time in his gloomy life. He slowly reached out and took her goose wings wrapped in oiled paper, went to the stall and pulled another piece of oiled paper, gave one of the pair of goose wings to her, and took the goose paw from her hand. for myself. Huang Zixia was holding the goose wings and goose palms he had re-partitioned, and when she was still hesitating, she heard Li Shubai's soft voice next to her ear, which seemed to come from a far, far away place, and in her heart, a slight The reverberation seemed to stir up countless ripples. "Heaven and earth, it's too far away." Standing there, she suddenly felt a dark surge in her chest, and she didn't understand why she was suddenly at a loss and didn't know what to do. After a long time, she saw that Li Shubai had already walked forward, and she came back to her senses. She quickly walked a few steps, followed behind him, and silently ate the roast goose in her hand.This is the most famous roast goose in Chengdu. It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Huang Zixia took a bite, and was worried that Li Shubai would not like these market snacks, so she quietly raised her eyes to look at him, only to find that he was standing in the crowd, looking back at her.He is half a head taller than others, so he is easy to find in the crowd. She rubbed against him in the crowd, raised her head and asked him, "Is it delicious?" He looked at her pink lips, then looked down at the goose-wing goose palm in his hand, and opened the oil-paper bag in his hand for the first time in the street, took a bite and tasted it, then nodded and said, "That's good." .” Looking at his brilliant face under the light, she couldn't help but feel a little nervous, as if to hide herself, she changed the topic and said, "We are being hunted down, there must be no one poisoning this thing, right?" "No," Li Shubai said lightly, "The other party may not already know our identities, and they can even use Princess Qile without hesitation, in order to hit a hit, how could they use such an uncertain and risky weapon? Method?" "Well, for example, setting a fire in our residence is much more convenient than poisoning us on the street." Huang Zixia said. Li Shubai nodded: "Yes, so, from the first moment our identities are revealed, we have to carefully choose where we stay." Huang Zixia took it for granted, and said, "So the people we will meet next, or the people we meet from now until the next time we are attacked, are very important." Li Shubai glanced at her, only nodded, but did not speak. Like ordinary people, they walk through the flow of people on the street with current and reverse.No one noticed them, and naturally no one could notice that sometimes they bumped into shoulders because of crowds, and sometimes they touched hair when they were blown by the wind. At the end of the street is a stationery store.There are white hemp paper and jute paper in the cabinet, as well as paper of various colors and golden flower paper.Yizhou hemp paper is the official paper used by the imperial court, and Li Shubai also used it daily, but the ones sold by the people are not as good as the ones used by the government, so he just looked at it and then put it down. Huang Zixia was rubbing a piece of jute paper in her hand, and then remembered the posthumous writing of the late emperor.It was also painted on jute paper in Sichuan and Sichuan. So far, it is impossible to guess the meaning of the three groups of graffiti, and it is impossible to see the reason for it. Li Shubai must have thought of this, turned his head and glanced at her, and then said in a low voice: "Father usually uses white hemp paper for painting. Jute paper...is usually used for writing." Huang Zixia stared at him with wide eyes in astonishment. He stared at her, the shop was narrow, the two of them were too close, his lowered voice sounded slightly in her ears, so that she could almost feel his breathing, gently sprayed in her ears, like ink blur Scattered: "So, at that time, he wanted to write, not to draw - let alone draw something that doesn't make sense." With a slight voice and flowing breath, she was suddenly extremely nervous, and that feeling of nervous blushing appeared in her heart again. The two walked out of the store, the night was dark, and when the two were walking on the lonely street where the crowd had dispersed, Huang Zixia finally couldn't help it and said, "My lord... must have thought of this long ago, right?" He gave a low "hmm", and his quiet and dark eyes rolled slightly under the eyelashes, looking at her. She hesitated, and finally asked, "Why... are you telling me now?" "Because, we're not the same today," he said. She was slightly confused and looked up at him. The moon was rising in the east, and the sky was dark blue. Before the moonlight, under the night sky, he stared at her deeply. He didn't say a word, but he already made her understand what he wanted to say. Yes, it's different. She remembered that she hugged his hot body tightly and pressed her face to his neck in the dark; she remembered that she had cut open his clothes and pressed his naked skin to bandage him; she remembered staying by his side all night After that, he opened his eyes in a daze, and saw his pair of extremely clear eyes staring at her quietly in the dawn light—— It's like he's staring at her now. And now he let her know this secret, and involved her in another conspiracy around him.From then on, even if her family's injustice is cleared up and she regains her innocence, she may have to walk side by side with him forever, and will never be able to leave him. Because everything is different. She is different from him.
"Brother Kui... Brother Wang! Brother Yang!" When they walked to the door of the inn, there was a hurried voice, which suddenly sounded, interrupting the silence between the two of them at this time. Huang Zixia turned his head and saw that Zhou Ziqin was running towards them with a small bottle in his hand. The expressions on his face were mixed with pride, elation, and panic. She couldn't help asking: "It was tested so quickly?" "Yeah, because I never expected..." When he said this, he rolled his eyes, looked around, and then pulled them in mysteriously, "There is something wrong with this, hurry up, I Show it to you!" Zhou Ziqin was used to teasing people. After closing the doors and windows, he had to carefully check the gaps next to him. He didn't put the bottle on the table until he was sure everything was safe. He asked in a low voice, "Do you know what this is?" Huang Zixia took it and looked at it. Inside was a bottle of bland liquid, colorless and odorless, like water. "Be careful! This is highly poisonous!" Zhou Ziqin said quickly. Huang Zixia asked again: "What is it? Where did it come from?" "Of course it came from that lock of hair. Although she drank the poison and died, the poison gas still reached the ends of her hair. I burned a little bit of hair and dissolved it in water, and after filtering, I got such a bottle of poison. Zhou Ziqin showed them triumphantly, "Be careful, I put the tip of a chopstick in the water and poisoned a tank of fish." Huang Zixia couldn't help mourning for his family's fish. Li Shubai frowned slightly, took the small bottle over, looked at it for a long time, and then asked thoughtfully, "Poison poison?" "Yes! It's poisonous poison!" Zhou Ziqin couldn't suppress his joy, but he couldn't speak loudly, which almost suffocated him. Poison!" "That's a rumor," Li Shubai said lightly, "there are no poisonous birds in the world, it's just that after being killed by this poison, the body hair and skin of the deceased will be highly poisonous, and after the bird is poisoned, the feathers will also be poisonous. Take it The hair or feathers of the dead can be made into highly poisonous poison again, so there is such a saying." Zhou Ziqin stuck out his tongue and said, "It's a good thing the world doesn't know what the formula is for such a highly poisonous poison. Otherwise, wouldn't the world be in chaos?" Li Shubai nodded and said: "This poison exists in the palace, and it was originally made by the previous dynasty. It is said that it is mainly made of arsenic, with aconitum, acacia, heartbroken grass, hook kiss, and see blood seal throat as auxiliary refiners." After the death of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Yu Wenhuaji obtained it in his palace in Yangzhou, and later passed it into the hands of Emperor Taizong. Taizong was so poisonous, so he burned the formula and left only a small bottle of the medicine. Today there are almost none.” "No, since after it poisons a person, that person's body, hair, and skin become poison, then won't you get another bottle if you make that person's hair into medicine?" Li Shubai shook his head and said: "Although the poisonous poison is powerful, it will gradually be lost in the process of use. When the poisonous poison is prepared and used for the first time, it will take effect when it touches the lips, and there is no chance of survival. The second poison from the blood or hair of the dead person killed by the poison is slower to attack. It may take an hour or two to attack after taking it, but once it occurs, it will kill the other party in a short time, and may even There is no chance to call for help or respond. The poison obtained from the dead is still highly poisonous, but it takes a long time to take effect. The dead may struggle for several hours, and it is no longer possible to extract the poison from the dead. It's no different from ordinary poison." Zhou Ziqin asked again: "Then, is the death method of poisonous poison similar to that of arsenic?" "Of course, after all, it is the main one, and the others are supplementary. But the toxicity is not the same. Swallowing a small amount of arsenic by mistake is usually fine, but one drop of poisonous poison is enough to kill hundreds of people." Li Shubai said, looking at the bottle again. Zhou Ziqin extracted the poison, and said, "It seems that Fu Xinruan and Wen Yang died under the poison of the second extraction." Huang Zixia asked: "Now our question is, why did a woman from Le nationality far away in Sichuan and Sichuan commit suicide with her lover who was not an official, using poison that only belongs to the palace?" "Furthermore, according to Prince Kui, poisonous poison is now a rare item even in the palace. Where did they get it from?" Zhou Ziqin's eyes lit up, and he looked at Huang Zixia brightly, " Chonggu! Maybe this time, we will encounter another shocking mystery!" Huang Zixia nodded silently, and said, "Well, it seems... there must be another truth behind it that we haven't noticed."
Zhou Ziqin, who used to climb the window of Yizhuang and sneak in to see the dead body, is now in his prime. He swaggered and rode in through the gate, and directly greeted the guard inside: "Uncle Jiang, let me come and see the most beautiful corpse in Chengdu." coming!" Uncle Jiang smiled all over his face, with a trace of unnatural embarrassment on his face: "Oh, don't catch the head, you are too serious! Come and see again?" Zhou Ziqin got down from his horse and said, "This time I not only watched it myself, but also brought others to watch it. This is our newcomer... Uh, hurry up, he is very good at solving cases, I'll bring him to watch it. " Uncle Jiang quickly nodded and bowed to them, looked at Huang Zixia, and frowned suspiciously: "This little brother... I seem to have seen it somewhere?" Huang Zixia, who had dealt with him a lot before, smiled, and kept silent to avoid trouble. Uncle Jiang frowned and thought about it, and when he saw Zhou Ziqin walking in with people, he quickly stopped: "Stop arresting heads, stop arresting heads..." Zhou Ziqin looked back at him: "What's wrong?" "That...that corpse..." He hesitated to speak, with a look of embarrassment on his face. "It's rotten? Can't it?" Zhou Ziqin was anxious, "No way! Why did it rot so quickly in such a cold ice cellar?" "It's not, but..." Old Uncle Jiang looked guilty and almost bit his tongue when he spoke, "A woman came here before, she said she was the sister of the deceased, and wanted to see her body. I don't think she Like a bad person, I just took her down." "Where is she now?" Zhou Ziqin asked. "I'm worshiping inside..." Old Man Jiang touched his sleeve, a piece was hanging there, and he didn't know how much the woman gave him.
Yizhuang in Chengdu is one of the places Huang Zixia is most familiar with. She first went to the file cabinet in Yizhuang, took out the autopsy transcript that would be kept here as usual, and opened it to read the records. The latest volume is a copy of "Songhuali Fu Zhai's Double Murder Case". The autopsy was conducted by Jiang Songlin, an old magistrate from the county. She looked at it carefully, and then followed Zhou Ziqin into the morgue. Inside are a few empty bamboo beds, and there is a cellar entrance on the inside of the house.They went down the steps, deeper and colder.Chengdu is hot in summer, and it is difficult to keep the corpse, so when the Yizhuang was rebuilt two years ago, Yuxuan and her discussed a solution, dug several cellars deep in the morgue, and built the walls with thick green bricks , only open a few small dampers for ventilation.Thick doors are also set up, and ice is taken out and placed inside in winter. If the in and out are not particularly frequent in midsummer, the ice inside may not melt all summer, which is very suitable for preserving corpses. The further you go down the steps, the colder the air inside becomes.And in this coldness, only the small lamps in their hands cast a little light, shaking on the surrounding stone walls, making them look even colder. Zhou Ziqin led them into the small room of Xuanzi, where there was faint candlelight, and a woman was standing in front of a corpse, motionless. Although the commoner clothes on her body and the simple bun were simple, but her slender and well-proportioned figure made them immediately recognize who she was. It is the Gongsun aunt of this generation, Gongsun Yuan. Huang Zixia immediately knew who the most beautiful corpse in Chengdu Zhou Ziqin was talking about was. The two of them approached, and Gongsun Yuan glanced back. The candlelight was refracted by the surrounding ice, like several dancing rainbows lingering around her, making her impossible to stare at, and even the tears on her face seemed Crystal clear. She raised her hand to wipe away her tears, saluted them, and said in a hoarse voice: "Zhou Butou, forgive me! I came here from Yangzhou, but I couldn't see the little girl for the last time, because I was afraid it would be a lifelong regret, so That’s why I begged Old Brother Jiang to let me come in and have a look, and I also ask Catcher Zhou to forgive me.” Zhou Ziqin quickly said: "It's okay, as long as you don't move or touch." "I know...I just stand here and watch, I never touch..." she said, the tears she just wiped came out again, "I know... Ah Ruan must be very sick lying here. cold." Zhou Ziqin said: "This case is actually considered closed. She and her lover should definitely die in love. There are distant relatives in Wen Yang's family, and he said that he is willing to collect the two of them together, so that they can be buried as soon as possible. I don't know what the girl means... ..." Gongsun Yuan looked at Fu Xinruan's body, reluctantly nodded her head, and said, "Or... wait for my sisters to come over, at least let them see Ah Ruan for the last time." Zhou Ziqin nodded and said, "That's okay." Gongsun Yuan thanked him again. Huang Zixia walked up to the corpse with a lamp, and signaled Zhou Ziqin to come over.Zhou Ziqin saw that the white cloth covering the corpse was only pulled up to the neck by Gongsun Yuan, exposing Fu Xinruan's face, so he lifted off the whole white cloth, exposing her whole body. Huang Zixia carefully illuminated Fu Xinruan with the lamp.Her clothes were fairly neat, gray purple shirt, blue skirt, plain silk shoes, etc., which were no different from those recorded in the autopsy file.And her figure, as Zhou Ziqin said, is a rare and perfect corpse.Although her muscles are blue and hard from the cold, her body is smooth and delicate, and her figure is plump and fit. Presumably when she was alive, she was a beauty who would be too long if she added a point, and would be too short if she took a point off. . After scanning it once, she focused on Fu Xinruan's hands. Her fingers were long and well-proportioned, and the tip of her right finger really showed an uneven black color as said in the autopsy file. On her bluish-white skin, Especially conspicuous. She looked at it for a long time, then raised her hand to wipe it off a few times, but it was cold and did not wipe off.She bent down and smelled again, but the body had been frozen for a long time, and it was obvious that there was no smell left. She frowned slightly, put down Fu Xinruan's hand, and checked her whole body.Zhou Ziqin said: "I have checked it twice, and it is true that he died of taking poison." "Well...it is indeed." She nodded affirmatively, and lightly pulled the white cloth to cover the body again.It was extremely cold in the ice cellar. They were all dressed in summer clothes. They were talking here for an autopsy. Their hands and feet were already icy cold. Seeing that there was no other discovery, Huang Zixia said to Gongsun Yuan: "Ma'am, I'm afraid the lights will fumigate too much ice. Why don't you go up first." Gongsun Yuan nodded, stared silently at Fu Xinruan who was lying there quietly, and walked up the steps. Huang Zixia went to Tianzihao's small room again, and the body of Princess Qile really stopped here.A round face, those beautiful almond eyes have been closed forever.The poisonous needle on her body was removed, but her body still had that bluish-black color, which clearly showed severe toxicity. Zhou Ziqin said behind her: "Don't watch, he died of poisoning." She lowered Princess Qile's collar slightly, and saw that the needle holes on her neck and chest had turned into small black holes. Zhou Ziqin inspected it carefully, and said: "These needles seem to be urgent, fast and dense. They should be fired by a machine, not pierced by someone." Huang Zixia nodded, thinking, Li Shubai was able to avoid those poisonous needles at that time, it was amazing - maybe, this is an instinct developed through long-term experience. She thought about the assassin again, but she didn't have a clue, thinking that since Li Shubai was familiar with him, she should have already grasped the matter, so she didn't think about it anymore, and lightened the body of Princess Qile again with a white cloth. Take it lightly.
The old man Jiang was caught for committing a crime today, and he was planning to make a contribution to the crime, so he had already prepared a water basin and refreshments for them. Huang Zixia cleaned her hands in the basin, and then asked Gongsun Yuan to stay: "Mother, come and have some refreshments with us. Regarding your little sister, we still have some things to check with you, please let me know." Gongsun Yuan nodded and knelt down with them at the table.Zhou Ziqin personally shared tea with them and brought them refreshments graciously. Gongsun Yuan didn't care about refreshments, she just held the teacup and said: "Eighteen years ago, we had six sisters. Because each admired the other's art, we became sworn sisters with different surnames in Yangzhou. We agreed to support each other and depend on each other for life. At that time, I had an old friend who spent a lot of money to build Yunshao Garden for us, so the six of us were called Yunshao Six Daughters." Zhou Ziqin said: "I also heard this from Jinnu in Beijing." "Yes, Jin Nu is the disciple of my second sister Wanzhi. After my second sister disappeared, when it comes to Yangzhou pipa, she is the number one." Huang Zixia didn't know if she knew Jin Nu was dead, but she thought, Gongsun Yuan must not know that Jin Nu died at the hands of her second sister Mei Wanzhi who had been missing for many years. "We all have our own strengths. For example, I am good at sword dancing, my third sister Lauder is good at soft dancing, and my fourth sister Yin Luyi's singing voice in the past is known as the best in the world... and A Ruan is different from us. She is not someone who comes out to show her face, because what she is good at is choreography," Gongsun Yuan sighed, and said softly, "A few years ago, Ah Ruan was invited by several bands in central Sichuan to help them arrange a big song. Originally it was said that we would go back in two months, but who knows that she got to know Wen Yang, so she postponed it by one month. We heard from her letter that Wen Yang's wife died young, and we thought it was nothing to be a sequel, so we let her stay. Here it is. Later, because Wen Yang’s parents objected to his son marrying a girl from Le nationality, Ah Ruan returned to Yangzhou for a few years. Until the autumn of the year before last, she reunited with Wen Yang in a foreign place and knew that both his parents had died, so she followed him. He arrived in Chengdu. The month before last, she wrote to us to inform us that Wenyang’s filial piety period had expired and the two of us were about to get married. We sisters are in touch with each other, and the third younger sister in Puzhou and the fourth younger sister in Suzhou have also made appointments to come together. .Only because I am the eldest sister, I wanted to come and help her arrange the wedding as soon as possible, so I set off earlier than the others. But when I arrived in Chengdu, what greeted me was Ah Ruan's sad news..." When she said this, she still couldn't help being excited, there were tears in her eyes, but she forced herself not to let them fall.She looked at Zhou Ziqin and said, "I heard that you, Mr. Zhou, are the chief arrester of Chengdu appointed by the emperor. I think you must also find it impossible—my little sister, Ruan, after waiting for so long, is finally about to marry her lover." They are bound to each other. Now they have no entanglement and love each other deeply, why did they both choose to die in love before getting married? I think there must be something inside!" Zhou Ziqin nodded and said, "This is indeed against common sense!" Huang Zixia asked again: "Wen Yang is outside, what's going wrong?" "No. I also found a neighbor in Wenyang. It is said that after his parents and wife passed away, he lived in seclusion and didn't have much contact with others. Because his family has forest assets and a good income, he only reads and draws at home every day. , is a very mild-tempered person. This is also very consistent with what Ah Ruan told us in the letter." "Then, was there anything unusual about your sixth younger sister before she died for love?" "I don't know... Ah Ruan is good at choreography and music, so she usually lives in seclusion, and only rents a small house in Chengdu, with a maid by her side. Now that she is about to marry into the Wen family, that servant has long been I can’t find it when I was sent home,” Gongsun Yuan said with tears in her eyes, shaking her head, “and the bands she usually helped choreograph, only said that she went to them to say goodbye two days before she died in love. , with a radiant face, it is really unexpected that she would commit suicide together with the man a few days later..." Huang Zixia thoughtfully, nodded and said: "In this way, it is indeed very strange. After waiting for ten years, all obstacles are gone, but the two committed suicide before getting married. No matter how you think about it, it is incredible. " "So, I hope that Mr. Zhou can thoroughly investigate this case again. Gongsun Yuan is very grateful!" She looked at Zhou Ziqin, her tearful eyes made Zhou Ziqin nod unconsciously, and said, "Don't worry, I'm here It is my duty to arrest the chief executive of Chengdu in this case!"
Huang Zixia felt very depressed. On the way back from Yizhuang, she looked at Zhou Ziqin's face that was so overjoyed and restrained that it seemed a little distorted, and felt that she was really suffocated to death. She had an idea in her mind, to kick Zhou Ziqin off the horse with a flying kick, so that his secretly smug face would be swollen. When Gongsun Yuan was sent away and only two people were left standing in the yamen, Huang Zixia finally couldn't help but give Zhou Ziqin a glance: "What did you take?" Zhou Ziqin was proud and looked at her with admiration: "Chonggu, you are really good at predicting things! How do you know that I took something?" "Nonsense, you can tell by your face." She stretched out her hand towards him. Zhou Ziqin quickly took out a lock of hair from his sleeve and put it in her palm, looked at her like a dog's leg and smiled: "Oh, I really feel something is wrong, although it looks like arsenic poisoning, don't you think Is the black color of the corpse's fingers strange?" Huang Zixia looked at the lock of hair, breathed a sigh of relief, and threw it back to him: "I thought you secretly cut a piece of meat or something." Zhou Ziqin was shocked immediately: "Chonggu, how can you be so cruel? How could a pure and kind-hearted Haoerlang like me do such a thing? Besides, the meat is frozen hard, so it's really hard to cut!" If it was easy to cut, did you just attack Fu Xinruan's body?Huang Zixia was speechless, so she could only change the subject and ask, "Can the hair be tested?" "Reluctantly...it depends on luck." He said, and put the lock of hair into his arms again. Huang Zixia remembered one more thing, and asked, "You said earlier that you found that Fusha?" "Yeah, its leg injury is not serious, but it has been stuck in the thorns for two or three days, and it is hungry enough." Zhou Ziqin hurriedly took her to the stable to see Fusha. Although she was already in a state of embarrassment, when Na Fusha saw her figure, he happily moved up to her, turned his head and rubbed against her body, very intimate. Huang Zixia hugged its head, feeling very happy in her heart.But seeing that it was really skinny, I couldn't help sighing, and hurried to the side to get a few liters of beans for it, and added it to the forage. Xiao Xia from Zhou Ziqin also sneaked over and ate a few mouthfuls.Zhou Ziqin pressed its nose and pushed it away, saying: "Fortunately, that Fusha has a good temper. If you want to get rid of evil, see if it will kick you away with a hoof." "If you want to get rid of evil, you don't dare to lock it with other horses," Huang Zixia said, and finally smiled a little, and said, "Hurry up and check Fu Xinruan's hair, I hope there is something Find." "Oh, I'll go right away." Zhou Ziqin said, and ran to the back. Huang Zixia took a picture at the gate of his courtyard, and saw A Bi and A Yan sitting in the courtyard calmly turning over the flower rope, the two bronze figures were standing on the porch, a row of skulls of cattle, sheep and pigs on the window sill, it seemed that Zhou Ziqin After arriving in Chengdu, things intensified. With Li Shubai in mind, she left the envoy's mansion and headed towards the inn. Chengdu is located in a low-lying area, surrounded by mountains, and there are not many opportunities to see sunlight throughout the year.Today's summer, the climate feels a little hot and humid.Huang Zixia has long been used to it, and only feels that the direction of the wind flow is an arc that she is extremely familiar with. She was familiar with the streets and alleys of Chengdu Mansion by heart, so she arrived in front of the inn at the entrance of the alley after many turns and detours.After returning to her room and changing clothes, she hurried to the next door to listen to the sound, to see if Li Shubai had fallen asleep.Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the door, Li Shubai said inside, "Come in." Huang Zixia opened the door and went in to see that Li Shubai was sitting by the window drinking tea.Seeing her coming in, he gestured to the chair in front of her. Huang Zixia hesitated for a while, then sat down, refilled his cup with tea, and asked, "Does your lord know who is the corpse we are going to see?" Li Shubai's gaze was still on the thousands of households in Chengdu Mansion outside the window, and he only said lightly: "Fu Xinruan, the six daughters of Yunshao." Huang Zixia really admired his ability to predict things like a god: "How did the prince guess it?" "Fu Xinruan recently died in the Chengdu Mansion. The cause of death is suspicious. Could it be that Ziqin didn't know about it? He obviously hasn't figured it out yet and needs you to help him." She nodded and said, "This matter is quite suspicious. There is a strange black mark on Fu Xinruan's right finger. Ziqin is going to start with it. First, check to see if there is any problem with the poison." He also stopped talking, just looked out of the window, thoughtful. Huang Zixia accompanied him to look at the scenery outside. The slanting light of the setting sun shines on the city through the clouds and mist, creating a dense golden mist.There are hollyhocks and hibiscus everywhere in the city, and even the warm and humid atmosphere looks bright. "Chengdu Mansion is really a good place, isn't it?" While she was in deep thought, she suddenly heard Li Shubai say this.She nodded subconsciously, Li Shubai stood up and said, "Let's go, take me to see this place." Huang Zixia was slightly surprised, and asked, "Your Highness won't take a rest?" He shook his head and said, "I want to see where you used to go." She let out a "huh", thought for a while, and asked, "Look at the places I... used to go to?" Li Shubai nodded and said, "Perhaps... it will help your family's case?" Although Huang Zixia felt that this was an excuse, she was too embarrassed to ask again, so she followed him out to the busiest place in Chengdu Mansion. It was already dusk, and the setting sun shone gently on the streets and alleys of Chengdu.In the streets and alleys paved with bluestone, some shops were closed, and several lights were lit at the door of some shops. According to the laws of this dynasty, there should be a curfew in Chengdu Mansion.However, since the Anshi Rebellion, the government regulations have been abolished, and even the curfew in the capital is not very strict. There are often night returnees near the East and West Markets in Chang'an, and the Chengdu government is far away from the capital. The so-called curfew is in name only. They walked all the way, there were embroidery workshops and brocade weaving workshops along the way, and the hanging brocade embroidery became more and more brilliant under the light.Both Shu Embroidery and Shu Brocade were crowned in the Tang Dynasty, and people at that time competed for them.Her eyes fell on the sachets embroidered with five-color auspicious patterns, and she remembered that she had thought of embroidering such a beautiful thing and hanging it on that person's waist, but in the end, she had no time and skills, so she kept throwing it on In the closet in the house— By now, the unfinished sachet has probably been cleared out by later generations and discarded.
Shudi Night Street has the most snacks. Huang Zixia bought roasted goose wings and goose paws with the money collected from the captives. After thinking about it, he handed the goose wings to Li Shubai and said, "My lord, you are soaring in the blue clouds, so I give you the wings; while I am down-to-earth in Shu, Give me the goose paw." Li Shubai looked down at her face looking up at him. Among the hustle and bustle of people, the lights of the night street were on and off, shining brightly on her eyes. The stars in the sky, the pearls on the blue sea, this is the only time in his gloomy life. He slowly reached out and took her goose wings wrapped in oiled paper, went to the stall and pulled another piece of oiled paper, gave one of the pair of goose wings to her, and took the goose paw from her hand. for myself. Huang Zixia was holding the goose wings and goose palms he had re-partitioned, and when she was still hesitating, she heard Li Shubai's soft voice next to her ear, which seemed to come from a far, far away place, and in her heart, a slight The reverberation seemed to stir up countless ripples. "Heaven and earth, it's too far away." Standing there, she suddenly felt a dark surge in her chest, and she didn't understand why she was suddenly at a loss and didn't know what to do. After a long time, she saw that Li Shubai had already walked forward, and she came back to her senses. She quickly walked a few steps, followed behind him, and silently ate the roast goose in her hand.This is the most famous roast goose in Chengdu. It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Huang Zixia took a bite, and was worried that Li Shubai would not like these market snacks, so she quietly raised her eyes to look at him, only to find that he was standing in the crowd, looking back at her.He is half a head taller than others, so he is easy to find in the crowd. She rubbed against him in the crowd, raised her head and asked him, "Is it delicious?" He looked at her pink lips, then looked down at the goose-wing goose palm in his hand, and opened the oil-paper bag in his hand for the first time in the street, took a bite and tasted it, then nodded and said, "That's good." .” Looking at his brilliant face under the light, she couldn't help but feel a little nervous, as if to hide herself, she changed the topic and said, "We are being hunted down, there must be no one poisoning this thing, right?" "No," Li Shubai said lightly, "The other party may not already know our identities, and they can even use Princess Qile without hesitation, in order to hit a hit, how could they use such an uncertain and risky weapon? Method?" "Well, for example, setting a fire in our residence is much more convenient than poisoning us on the street." Huang Zixia said. Li Shubai nodded: "Yes, so, from the first moment our identities are revealed, we have to carefully choose where we stay." Huang Zixia took it for granted, and said, "So the people we will meet next, or the people we meet from now until the next time we are attacked, are very important." Li Shubai glanced at her, only nodded, but did not speak. Like ordinary people, they walk through the flow of people on the street with current and reverse.No one noticed them, and naturally no one could notice that sometimes they bumped into shoulders because of crowds, and sometimes they touched hair when they were blown by the wind. At the end of the street is a stationery store.There are white hemp paper and jute paper in the cabinet, as well as paper of various colors and golden flower paper.Yizhou hemp paper is the official paper used by the imperial court, and Li Shubai also used it daily, but the ones sold by the people are not as good as the ones used by the government, so he just looked at it and then put it down. Huang Zixia was rubbing a piece of jute paper in her hand, and then remembered the posthumous writing of the late emperor.It was also painted on jute paper in Sichuan and Sichuan. So far, it is impossible to guess the meaning of the three groups of graffiti, and it is impossible to see the reason for it. Li Shubai must have thought of this, turned his head and glanced at her, and then said in a low voice: "Father usually uses white hemp paper for painting. Jute paper...is usually used for writing." Huang Zixia stared at him with wide eyes in astonishment. He stared at her, the shop was narrow, the two of them were too close, his lowered voice sounded slightly in her ears, so that she could almost feel his breathing, gently sprayed in her ears, like ink blur Scattered: "So, at that time, he wanted to write, not to draw - let alone draw something that doesn't make sense." With a slight voice and flowing breath, she was suddenly extremely nervous, and that feeling of nervous blushing appeared in her heart again. The two walked out of the store, the night was dark, and when the two were walking on the lonely street where the crowd had dispersed, Huang Zixia finally couldn't help it and said, "My lord... must have thought of this long ago, right?" He gave a low "hmm", and his quiet and dark eyes rolled slightly under the eyelashes, looking at her. She hesitated, and finally asked, "Why... are you telling me now?" "Because, we're not the same today," he said. She was slightly confused and looked up at him. The moon was rising in the east, and the sky was dark blue. Before the moonlight, under the night sky, he stared at her deeply. He didn't say a word, but he already made her understand what he wanted to say. Yes, it's different. She remembered that she hugged his hot body tightly and pressed her face to his neck in the dark; she remembered that she had cut open his clothes and pressed his naked skin to bandage him; she remembered staying by his side all night After that, he opened his eyes in a daze, and saw his pair of extremely clear eyes staring at her quietly in the dawn light—— It's like he's staring at her now. And now he let her know this secret, and involved her in another conspiracy around him.From then on, even if her family's injustice is cleared up and she regains her innocence, she may have to walk side by side with him forever, and will never be able to leave him. Because everything is different. She is different from him.
"Brother Kui... Brother Wang! Brother Yang!" When they walked to the door of the inn, there was a hurried voice, which suddenly sounded, interrupting the silence between the two of them at this time. Huang Zixia turned his head and saw that Zhou Ziqin was running towards them with a small bottle in his hand. The expressions on his face were mixed with pride, elation, and panic. She couldn't help asking: "It was tested so quickly?" "Yeah, because I never expected..." When he said this, he rolled his eyes, looked around, and then pulled them in mysteriously, "There is something wrong with this, hurry up, I Show it to you!" Zhou Ziqin was used to teasing people. After closing the doors and windows, he had to carefully check the gaps next to him. He didn't put the bottle on the table until he was sure everything was safe. He asked in a low voice, "Do you know what this is?" Huang Zixia took it and looked at it. Inside was a bottle of bland liquid, colorless and odorless, like water. "Be careful! This is highly poisonous!" Zhou Ziqin said quickly. Huang Zixia asked again: "What is it? Where did it come from?" "Of course it came from that lock of hair. Although she drank the poison and died, the poison gas still reached the ends of her hair. I burned a little bit of hair and dissolved it in water, and after filtering, I got such a bottle of poison. Zhou Ziqin showed them triumphantly, "Be careful, I put the tip of a chopstick in the water and poisoned a tank of fish." Huang Zixia couldn't help mourning for his family's fish. Li Shubai frowned slightly, took the small bottle over, looked at it for a long time, and then asked thoughtfully, "Poison poison?" "Yes! It's poisonous poison!" Zhou Ziqin couldn't suppress his joy, but he couldn't speak loudly, which almost suffocated him. Poison!" "That's a rumor," Li Shubai said lightly, "there are no poisonous birds in the world, it's just that after being killed by this poison, the body hair and skin of the deceased will be highly poisonous, and after the bird is poisoned, the feathers will also be poisonous. Take it The hair or feathers of the dead can be made into highly poisonous poison again, so there is such a saying." Zhou Ziqin stuck out his tongue and said, "It's a good thing the world doesn't know what the formula is for such a highly poisonous poison. Otherwise, wouldn't the world be in chaos?" Li Shubai nodded and said: "This poison exists in the palace, and it was originally made by the previous dynasty. It is said that it is mainly made of arsenic, with aconitum, acacia, heartbroken grass, hook kiss, and see blood seal throat as auxiliary refiners." After the death of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Yu Wenhuaji obtained it in his palace in Yangzhou, and later passed it into the hands of Emperor Taizong. Taizong was so poisonous, so he burned the formula and left only a small bottle of the medicine. Today there are almost none.” "No, since after it poisons a person, that person's body, hair, and skin become poison, then won't you get another bottle if you make that person's hair into medicine?" Li Shubai shook his head and said: "Although the poisonous poison is powerful, it will gradually be lost in the process of use. When the poisonous poison is prepared and used for the first time, it will take effect when it touches the lips, and there is no chance of survival. The second poison from the blood or hair of the dead person killed by the poison is slower to attack. It may take an hour or two to attack after taking it, but once it occurs, it will kill the other party in a short time, and may even There is no chance to call for help or respond. The poison obtained from the dead is still highly poisonous, but it takes a long time to take effect. The dead may struggle for several hours, and it is no longer possible to extract the poison from the dead. It's no different from ordinary poison." Zhou Ziqin asked again: "Then, is the death method of poisonous poison similar to that of arsenic?" "Of course, after all, it is the main one, and the others are supplementary. But the toxicity is not the same. Swallowing a small amount of arsenic by mistake is usually fine, but one drop of poisonous poison is enough to kill hundreds of people." Li Shubai said, looking at the bottle again. Zhou Ziqin extracted the poison, and said, "It seems that Fu Xinruan and Wen Yang died under the poison of the second extraction." Huang Zixia asked: "Now our question is, why did a woman from Le nationality far away in Sichuan and Sichuan commit suicide with her lover who was not an official, using poison that only belongs to the palace?" "Furthermore, according to Prince Kui, poisonous poison is now a rare item even in the palace. Where did they get it from?" Zhou Ziqin's eyes lit up, and he looked at Huang Zixia brightly, " Chonggu! Maybe this time, we will encounter another shocking mystery!" Huang Zixia nodded silently, and said, "Well, it seems... there must be another truth behind it that we haven't noticed."