Chapter 187 How can Lord Gongsun learn from the flower-picking thief!

Gongsun Zhuoyu did not laugh at Song Xitang.There is no one who is not afraid of death, especially those who pursue fame and fortune. Naturally, they cherish life even more.He walked into the room and sat down at the table: "Mr. Song, don't be nervous. I came here to ask you a question."

Seeing that it was not the murderer, Song Xitang felt a little more at ease. He reluctantly threw away the short knife in his hand and walked to the table: "Brother Zhuoyu, what do you want to ask?"

Du Lingchun also wanted to hear what they had to say, so he looked up casually.

Gongsun Zhuoyu asked: "Today you and Mr. Leng are discussing matters with officials from the Ministry of Rites in the teahouse. How many people are there? How can we sit down?"

Song Xitang thought for a while: "There are six people in total, in the private room on the second floor."

Although the Ministry of Rites is a Qingshui Yamen, it has a high status. In addition to being responsible for receiving envoys from the vassal state and court etiquette, it is also in charge of the imperial examinations all over the world.Song Xitang and Leng Wuyan were not familiar with them at all. They just followed Du Lingchun's order to explain some secret matters.

Leng Wuyan on the side was originally drinking tea, but when he heard Gongsun Zhuoyu ask two questions in succession, he didn't know what his reaction was, and he stopped subconsciously.

Gongsun Zhuoyu actually said: "How many people are there? What are their names?"

As soon as he said this, Song Xitang also reacted. He looked startled and was about to speak, but Leng Wuyan had already answered first and read out a long list of names: "Liu Yiming, Kang Wenxian, Bai Qiu..."

After reading these two words, he suddenly silenced.

In Xin Qiji's "Partridge Sky: The Return of Disease to Ehu Lake", the two sentences "the white bird is speechless and self-sorrowful" and "every hill and every valley are romantic" happen to occupy these two words.It was just that out of instinct, the first thing Song Xitang saw at that time was his own name, and he subconsciously thought that the murderer was going to kill them. He was so horrified that he did not dare to say anything, and hurriedly left the teahouse with Leng Wuyan.

Now that I think about it, the murderer probably wasn't them, but an official from the Ministry of Rites named Bai Qiu!

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The street cleansing drum has finished beating, it is curfew time, and every household has its doors tightly closed.Except for the watchmen who were still walking in the streets, the surroundings were deserted.

Gongsun Zhuoyu and others rode their horses all the way to Bai Qiu's home, but found that the door was closed and no servant was on duty at night.He stepped forward and knocked hard on the door. It took a while before someone came over.

"Who is it, in the middle of the night..."

The door creaked open, and someone poked a head out of it. It looked like he was a servant of the Bai Mansion.The servant rubbed his eyes. He was still confused at first. However, when he found a group of Xuanyi guards standing outside, his mind suddenly came to his senses. He was so frightened that he took half a step back: "You, you, you... who are you?!"

Gongsun Zhuoyu didn't bother to explain to him, so he opened the door and walked in. He looked around and observed the surrounding environment: "Jinglu Division is ordered to investigate the case. Where is your master's bedroom?"

The servant was confused and forgot to answer for a moment. Shi Qianqiu was impatient and directly pressed his shoulder with the scabbard: "Tell me, where is your master's bedroom?"

Without waiting for the servant to answer, Gongsun Zhuoyu suddenly smelled a faint smell of blood floating in the air, and his expression changed.He searched along the way and finally found that the smell of blood was coming from a study room. He didn't care so much and kicked the door open.

"boom"

The carved wooden door can be damaged easily, not to mention that it is not locked inside.Everyone rushed into the study, only to see a man in his forties or fifties sitting quietly behind the desk, with sword marks on his body, his head hung low, and blood dripping down, soaking the floor tiles under his feet.

Gongsun Zhuoyu hurried forward to check, but found that the man had died.

When the servant saw this scene at the door, he was so frightened that he stumbled out and ran out, shouting in panic: "No, no, no... it's not good! The master is dead! The master is dead!"

Gongsun Zhuoyu touched Bai Qiu's neck and immediately said to Shi Qianqiu: "The body is still hot. The murderer has not gone far. Master, could you please lead someone to search everywhere!"

Shi Qianqiu was an old man, and he had some experience in chasing people. He walked out of the study and saw a shoe print on the white wall on the right. Guessing that this person had mediocre qinggong, he jumped out of the wall and chased after him, saying in a deep voice:"You guys wait for me here!"

Chasing too many people will cause trouble.

Against the night background, a dark figure was speeding through the streets.Shi Qianqiu walked on the roof, which was condescending and easy to search. With his keen eyesight, he noticed a dark shadow flashing in front of him on the right. He unsheathed his long sword and stabbed it directly: "Take your life!"

Shi Qianqiu didn't necessarily want the other person's life, he just got used to it.

The man in black heard a gust of wind and instinctively ducked to the side, but he was still hit by a sword in his right arm.His face was covered with black cloth. He probably didn't expect that the yamen also had such a master, so he shouted in a low voice: "What a fast swordsmanship!"

Shi Qianqiu didn't talk nonsense with him, and moved as fast as lightning, wanting to capture this man back and hand him over to Gongsun Zhuoyu.The man in black also used a fast sword and did not give way when he saw this. He started fighting with him directly, and his speed was only slightly inferior to Shi Qianqiu.

The man in black was wounded and outmatched. When they exchanged blows, he actually recognized Shi Qianqiu's swordsmanship and sneered coldly: "Everyone outsiders said that 'a sword without a shadow' disappeared in the world and disappeared without a trace. It turned out that he was doingThe imperial eagle dog!"

Shi Qianqiu struck at his face with a sharp sword: "Xia uses force to break the law. If you do this, I'm afraid it's not as good as me, a court eagle!"

He didn't want to take the life of the man in black, so he didn't try his best and made every move with reservations.Who would have thought that the other party would directly strike with all his might, stabbing Shi Qianqiu at the risk of hurting himself, and then he would drop a handful of Ecstasy from his sleeve and escape while Shi Qianqiu was avoiding it.

Over at Bai Mansion, Gongsun Zhuoyu is conducting an autopsy.

In addition to sword wounds, the first three corpses were more or less punished by the murderer, but no other marks were found on Bai Qiu's body.Gongsun Zhuoyu was horrified when he saw Bai Qiu's dead state, with blood all over his jaw. He thoughtfully opened his jaw and took a look, only to see that his mouth was covered in blood and flesh, and his tongue had been strangled with the edge of a sword.

Tsk.

Although Gongsun Zhuoyu knew how to do autopsies, it didn't mean he liked looking at a pile of rotten meat. He closed Bai Qiu's mouth, got up and went to the outside room.

Such a commotion occurred in the middle of the night, which alarmed the entire Bai family.Bai Qiu's eldest wife and his third concubine were crying outside, their handkerchiefs wet with tears. If Xuanyi Wei hadn't stopped them, they would have rushed in immediately.

"Master, Master, why did you die so well? How can you live without us orphans and widowed mothers? Wuwuwuwu..."

"Master, if you leave, why don't you take me with you and stay in this world and suffer in vain..."

When Gongsun Zhuoyu came out, he looked outside and saw that the ladies were crying more miserably than the last.I thought that the little old man Bai Qiu was in good health and had so many wives. It was a pity that he died young and could not enjoy the blessings of the whole family.

He went outside to investigate, and finally found a clear footprint on the white wall. While he ordered someone to get a measuring tape, he measured the size of the shoe print on the wall with his fingertips.

In a sense, the length of a person's feet is proportional to the height, about one to seven. The taller a person is, the larger the shoe size will naturally be. Assuming that the length of a person's bare feet is x, then the height =6.876X.

The shoe prints left by the murderer on the wall have clear lines. They are the most common cloth shoes in the market. They are about the same thickness and thickness. Measure the thickness of ordinary shoes, then subtract the internal and external difference from the length of the footprints, and you can get the length of your bare feet.

Although this method is not necessarily accurate, unless there are special circumstances, the calculated answers will not be too different.

Gongsun Zhuoyu used paper to trace the shoe prints on the wall. After calculation, he finally roughly estimated that the murderer was about 1.82 meters tall.

It didn't take long for Shi Qianqiu to come back.He was obviously very angry about letting the murderer go. He put the bloody sword into its scabbard with a clang and said, "My lord, I am incompetent, so let him run away."

Gongsun Zhuoyu had already been mentally prepared. If the murderer was really easy to catch, there would be no need to investigate the case himself: "Master, have you ever fought against him?"

Shi Qianqiu nodded when he heard this: "He has his face covered, but his right arm was injured by me."

Gongsun Zhuoyu's eyes lit up: "Has that person ever spoken? Master, how old is he?"

Shi Qianqiu thought about it for a moment: "The voice sounded like that of a young man. When fighting, he used a left-handed sword."

Gongsun Zhuoyu raised his eyebrows slightly: "Huh? Left-handed? Could it be because Master injured his right arm?"

Shi Qianqiu shook his head: "It's not like that. His left-hand swordsmanship is proficient and extremely fast. He has obviously practiced it for many years. If he changes his hand temporarily, he will definitely not be so handy."

Gongsun Zhuoyu couldn't help but hissed.So far, four people have died. If the news comes out tomorrow, there will be another storm.If the emperor hadn't been keeping an eye on this case, he would have just ignored it and dismissed it as an unsolved case.

"That's all, it's getting late, let's go back first and check again tomorrow."

Gongsun Zhuoyu returned to the company's mansion. After bathing and changing clothes, he should have gone to sleep, but for some reason, he was not sleepy at all.

Gongsun Zhuoyu tossed and turned on the bed. Seeing the bright moonlight outside the window, he simply got up and walked to the study.He lit a candle and placed it on the corner of the table, dipped his pen in ink, and began to sort out the information collected over the past few days.

The murderer is a young man, 1.82 meters tall, left-handed, with an injury to his right arm. He is good at using a long sword, hates corrupt officials, and is a perfectionist.

Well……

Gongsun Zhuoyu thought for a while and realized that this information was enough for them to check.The city gates have been strictly inspected in the past few days, and only entry and exit are allowed. The murderer was injured and must still be in the capital. Tomorrow, he will lead troops to search door to door. If he is lucky, he may be able to find him directly.

He put down his pen, remembered something, and picked up the two pieces of paper sent by the murderer.One piece is "Farewell to Xin Jian at the Furong Tower", one is "The Partridge Sky: The Return of the Elephant Lake and the Beginning of Sickness", and there are two other pieces, "Thousand Years Old. Outside the Sand by the Waterside" and "Farewell to Dong Da", which should be written by Tang FeiFrost in hands.

The paper is new, the ink is new, obviously torn from the same new book.

Gongsun Zhuoyu also studied hard in the cold window and read hundreds of books. He recalled carefully and vaguely remembered that he had read a "Collection of Miscellaneous Poems", which included these four poems from different dynasties.

Although the bookshelves at the back are filled with books, they look like decorations and have not been touched.Gongsun Zhuoyu took the lamps and candles and searched them one by one, but found that there was nothing he wanted. Thinking of the huge collection of books on one wall of Du Lingchun's study, he simply turned around and left the room.

Everything is silent, and the small garden is silent.However, the company's mansion is heavily guarded and there are still guards patrolling it.Gongsun Zhuoyu found all the way to the door of Du Lingchun's room, raised his hand to knock on the door, but was afraid that he would fall asleep, so he couldn't do it.

Wu Yue held his sword and stood guard in the dark. When he heard someone coming, he opened his eyes like an eagle. Who would have expected to find that it was Gongsun Zhuoyu. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to pretend that he didn't see him and turned his back calmly.

Gongsun Zhuoyu thought that if Du Lingchun fell asleep, wouldn't he disturb others' dreams?After hesitating for a while, he put down his hand and prepared to go back. However, when he walked to the diamond flower window, he saw some faint candlelight. He pushed open a crack with his hand and looked inside.

This window is facing the study room. Du Lingchun is sitting on the imperial chair, writing something with a pen. It looks like an account book, a thick stack.After he finished writing the last page, he finally stopped writing, but he keenly felt a line of sight next to him. He turned around and looked, and happened to be facing Gongsun Zhuoyu: "..."

Gongsun Zhuoyu was lying on the window sill, with bright eyes, like a cat peeping its head. When he was discovered, he was a little embarrassed. He slowly raised his hand and said hello: "Hi, company."

Du Lingchun: "..."

Wu Yue finally realized that something was wrong. When he saw this, his expression changed slightly. He rushed forward and grabbed Gongsun Zhuoyu: "Master Gongsun, how can you imitate the flower picker and pick open the window!"

The author has something to say: Wu Yue (heartbroken): You shameless scum!

Gongsun Zhuoyu:????