Chapter 33 chapter eight

It was already late at night when Qiao Tai returned to the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion. Di Gonggong was looking at Fangxing Tuzhi in Guangzhou in his study.Qiao Tai briefly reported how he went to Manser's mansion for a banquet with Yao Taikai. Di Gong said with a smile: "Qiao Tai, Tao Gan and I have found Mr. Liu, he was murdered. His body has been moved from Huata Temple to the Yamen." Qiao Tai excitedly said: "The master went out in person, and he really won the victory. I just don't know how Master Liu died?" Di Gong recounted a section of Huata Temple in detail.Finally, he said: "The cadavers in the yamen have already experienced the dead body. Mr. Liu was poisoned to death by a poison that has not been recorded in the medical code. It is said that this poison is only compatible with people in the water, and the general pharmacy does not know the secret. Depending on the dosage, Restrict the life of the poisoned person, take the antidote in time, and heal immediately, and nothing will happen. The poison has three, five, and ten days. There are various items, and it takes half a year at most. Mix it at will, and it is very effective.— —It is the ancestors here who have seen the precedent of people on the water being poisoned, otherwise they would have been kept in the dark, thinking that they died of a sudden heart attack."

"Master just now didn't seem to say where the patrol found Master Liu's body?" Qiao Tai was careful after all. "In the yamen, the three squads and the nine teams of patrols have been interrogated all over, and no one has ever seen Master Liu's body. It was not the patrols of the yamen who carried it to Huata Temple." Qiao Tai was surprised: "Could it be that someone pretended to be a watchman and carried it?" "It was someone who conspired to hide the sky and cross the sea, and actually deceived the monks in Huata Temple. Fortunately, Guanyin Bodhisattva protected him, otherwise he would have been burnt and died without proof." Di Gong sighed, and continued: "Escape from that cricket. Judging from the location, Mr. Liu must have had an accident in the Huata Temple area. When he died, his face was very calm, and there was no sign of pain, and there is something strange here."

"My lord, the blind girl who caught the golden bell may know something inside. She said that she had waited outside the temple wall for half a day to trap the golden bell. During this time, she held her breath and listened quietly. There was a strange sound inside the temple wall. She couldn't hide it from her." . . . the blind man is blind, but his ears are sharp." "We also took a closer look at the back wall of the Huata Temple. There are many cracks. But the high wall of the bungalow where the corpse is hidden is seamless. I don't know which section of the wall the blind girl caught the golden bell.—— I have sent Tao Gan to invite the blind girl to come to the Yamen to inquire carefully, and she must be back by now."

Before the words were finished, Tao Gan went back into the study as expected.But there was no blind woman following behind. "Sir, this matter is too strange. In just a moment, not only did the blind girl disappear, but all the silk cages and clay pots in her house disappeared." "Tao Gan, have a cup of tea first, and speak slowly." Di Gong was also puzzled. "I went to her house in Shizifang and saw that the room was empty, only the bamboo pole was still hanging. It turned out that the silk cages were neatly hung under the bamboo pole. Eight or nine pots in the corner of the house were gone. The bamboo curtain Later, her mattress, pillow quilt, and clothes were all removed, and there was only one empty house left. ——I asked all the neighbors around me, and I went to the cricket stand in the market, but no one knew about her. whereabouts."

Qiao Tai said: "Brother Tao may be deceived by that little girl, it was a trap at the beginning." Tao Gan argued: "That girl won't set a trap for me to go in. When I met her at that time, it was a coincidence. Now she disappeared suddenly, it must be hijacked by the gangsters. I remember hearing the sound of stairs when I was chatting with her. I didn’t pay attention. That girl’s clue to the Huata Temple from Jinzhong may be the most deadly thing. ——The villain is terrified, so she uses this trick.” Di Gong caressed his beard for half a day, then said: "Tonight I heard a story from someone on the water, and I saw that only the people on the water can mix the medicine that poisoned Mr. Liu. The women on the water have a lot of contact with Fanke on the flower boat. Two types of people must pay special attention to visits."

Qiao Quan said: "Tomorrow I will go to Bai'etan to visit that Zhumu slave. At the banquet today, she seemed to have something to say to me, but she didn't spit it out because of Manser's surly behavior. In the end, she asked me to go to the Northwest of Bai'etan. Four rows of flower boats to date her.—Maybe we can find out some secrets of the people on the water." Di Gong said: "There is also that Ni Tianji, didn't he just invite you? You might as well go and meet him for a while. Manser is angry with him, and he will be at odds with the big cannibal. You can get some big ones out of his mouth." The whereabouts of the cannibals.—Tomorrow you visit the two of them and come to the Yamen to report.”

Qiaotai readily accepted the order. "Tao Gan, the corpses of Mr. Liu and Mr. Su should be collected as soon as possible and transported back to the capital. Don't let Wen Kan, Bao Kuan and others find out the inside story. This matter still depends on the three of us to investigate secretly. The blind girl needs to find the thread as soon as possible. .However, you can privately entrust the arresting military academy here, say that relatives and friends have asked you to find them, and just keep quiet.——You two should be more cautious when you go to the streets tomorrow, lest the gangsters have recognized you."