Not far outside the city of Shaoxing Prefecture, there is the Military Camp Water Village on Liangzhe Road.

After settling down their troops, Long Qiaoguang and Tang Xiaomei rested for a day in the water village, then took a boat to Shaoxing Prefecture to meet Zhan Zhao and the others.

As the boat sailed on the lake, Mr. Guang stood on the bow of the boat and admired the scenery on both sides of the river. It was a clear day today, and as soon as the breeze blew on the lake, the right general felt relaxed and happy.

"Ms. sir!"

At this time, Tang Xiaomei ran out of the cabin, pulled Long Qiaoguang and ran towards the stern of the ship.

Mr. Guang was quite puzzled. He ran to the stern of the boat and saw his wife pointing to a boat in the distance and saying, "Is that the boat of Master and Master?!"

Long Qiaoguang's eyes lit up as soon as he heard the word "master". He quickly squinted and took a closer look. Sure enough... it was his master's ship.

Don't ask why Long Qiaoguang can recognize it. In the words of Zhao Pu and his brothers, if a mosquito bites Wu Yifu appears within a radius of ten miles, Mr. Guang will recognize it.

"Master and Master!"

The couple shouted from the stern of the boat and waved to the other side.

Coincidentally, Wu Yifu and Hong Jiuniang were indeed on board. The couple had just come out of the Demon Palace and were going to Shaoxing Mansion to buy some things.

Jiuniang also ran to the bow of the boat and waved to her little sister and the others. Wu Yifu walked out of the cabin. From a distance, he saw his apprentice looking silly and happy. He was curious as to why the young couple came to the south of the Yangtze River.

The two ships met in front of the pier, and Long Qiaoguang and Tang Xiaomei boarded the master's and his wife's ship.

The younger sister held Jiuniang's arm and called the master's wife in front of her and behind her, making Hongjiu Niang smile.

Master Guang just circled around Wu Yifu, saying, "Master, why are you here? Master, where has he been recently? Master, has he eaten? Master, why is he wearing such a cold weather?"

Master? Master, why are you going to Shaoxing Mansion? Master, have you lost weight? Master..."

Wu Yifu sighed helplessly, and all he heard in his ears was "Buzz, buzz, buzz, master, buzz, buzz, master... buzz, buzz..."

After taking two winter dates and stuffing them into Guang Ye's mouth, Wu Yifu finally calmed down for a while and asked Tang Xiaomei why they came to Shaoxing Mansion.

The younger sister briefly talked about how Zhao Zhen led a large group of troops to the south of the Yangtze River for an incognito patrol.

Jiuniang heard that the palace master, the demon king, and the others were at Baijiazhuang in Shaoxing Prefecture, so she wanted to go there too.

…

Lin Yehuo and the others returned to Baijiazhuang, and Long Qiaoguang and the others arrived shortly after. The family got together to make it more lively. Tang Luomei followed his uncle and continued to circle around Youlian.

…

Unlike the noisy "idlers" in Baijiazhuang, Gongsun and Zhao Puke were serious now.

The husband was dragged out of the widow's workshop by the Ninth Prince to wash his hands. Lu Yuelan also chased him to the door. While looking at the two people outside, he looked back at the body.

The spider in the eye socket of the corpse was obviously alive, and it crawled out as soon as the blindfold was lifted.

Lu Yuelan waved to Gongsun and the others, "You're alive!"

Gongsun shouted outside, "Be careful, come out quickly!"

But the spider crawled onto the corpse's forehead and suddenly stopped moving.

Zhao Pu heard a gust of wind pass above his head, and the briquettes flew down and landed on Lu Yuelan's shoulder, making a "coo" sound from his mouth.

Hearing the warning cry of the great horned owl, the spider retracted into the eye socket of the corpse and hid motionless.

Zhao Pu heard some strange sounds around him. When he raised his head and looked, the Ninth Prince was startled... He saw on the trees in the Yamen courtyard, on the walls of the surrounding courtyards, and on the roof on one side. I don't know when.

A large flock of crows has fallen.

These crows are huge and stare at the yard with their dark eyes.

Gongsun walked back to the widow's workshop, and the briquettes flew in and landed on Gongsun's shoulders. He kept staring at the spider.

Probably because a huge raptor was watching, the spider huddled in the corpse's eye socket and pretended to be dead.

Lu Yuelan ran to find a glass jar and brought it over. Zhao Pu took the jar and signaled the two of them to step back. He took a longer bamboo stick, drove the spider into the glass jar, and closed the lid.

Putting the lid on the table, Zhao Pu looked up again. The crows on the wall had flown away, and a few were still on the trees, but the atmosphere was obviously not as tense as before.

The briquettes also flew away from Gongsun's shoulders, landed on a high shelf in the yard, and combed their feathers.

Gongsun and Lu Yuelan gathered around the table to observe the spider, while Zhao Pu walked to the yard to observe the birds.

"Is it poisonous?" Lu Yuelan asked Gongsun.

Gongsun nodded, "Very poisonous."

"So the cause of death of the deceased was poisoning from a spider bite?" Lu Yuelan looked at the eye sockets of the corpse, but there were no wounds in the eyes.

There is a layer of black leather pads in the hollow eye sockets, which looks very awkward.

Gongsun touched his chin and said, "This spider may have been raised by this person."

Lu Yuelan thought for a while, "Could it be... that he put it in the blindfold on purpose?"

"Easy to carry." Gongsun nodded, "If you want to bring a poisonous spider into a heavily guarded place, this is a good way. You can first use medicine to make the spider comatose, hide it in a blindfold, and bring it with you.

Once you get somewhere, just take out the spider and put it where you want it to be."

Lu Yuelan frowned when she heard this, "So this person might be a killer?"

"It's very possible, but he was killed without success. The question is..." Gongsun circled the body twice more, "There were no external injuries, and the internal organs were not damaged. How did this person die?"

Gongsun put on his gloves, held up the deceased's head, and began to explore bit by bit. After groping for a while, Gongsun suddenly stopped, reached for a pair of tweezers, opened the deceased's hair, caught something, and pulled it out.

. After two attempts, he didn’t pull it out, so he waved to Zhao Pu.

When the Ninth Prince went over, Gongsun gave him the tweezers.

Zhao Pu squinted his eyes and lowered his head to look carefully, and frowned. He picked up something with tweezers and exerted force... and pulled out a leaf from the side of the deceased's head.

According to the shape of the leaf, it was a willow leaf. As the willow leaf was pulled out, blood flowed from the seven orifices of the deceased.

Lu Yuelan opened her mouth and looked at the soft willow leaf. This was not a willow leaf-shaped blade, but a real leaf!

Zhao Pu put the bloody leaves on the white porcelain tray aside and said, "The way he picked leaves and flying flowers, he was killed by a master with deep internal strength."

"Use a piece of willow leaf as a flying knife to penetrate the skull and damage the brain." Gongsun shook his head, "This is not something that ordinary experts can do. The skull is very hard and the scars are minimal."

"Not only is he fast, he is also accurate. In addition to having high internal strength, the murderer is also good at concealed weapons." Zhao Pu felt that this kind of behavior was quite gangster. "Maybe it was some kind of vendetta."

While they were chatting, a government servant came to Lu Yuelan with a portrait. It was the portrait of "Enfuzi" that Fang Jingxiao had just found.

Lu Yuelan was puzzled after reading it, so she asked the Yamen servant to call the two Wang brothers to identify the body.

Wang Dagui was stunned when he saw the corpse, saying that this person was the master who entrusted him to sell the goddess's ornaments, and he didn't understand why the person died.

Lu Yuelan asked the two of them what exactly this kind lady did.

Both of them were hesitant.

Lu Yuelan's face darkened, "A life has been lost and you two are still hiding something? Could it be that his death has something to do with you two?!"

The two people hurriedly waved their hands to clear the relationship. In the end, Wang Dagui had no choice but to confess, "This lady is a well-known broker in this area."

Lu Yuelan squinted at Yuan Wang.

Wang Dagui hurriedly explained, "In our industry, some people want to sell things and some people want to buy things, but they don't want to make it known or keep records, so they handle it through a broker. As for him, he takes a commission from it. This is also

A common thing..."

"Are you fooling a three-year-old child?" Lu Yuelan sneered, "A broker takes a commission? This is how people are bought and killed. Is it common?"

Wang Dagui looked embarrassed.

"The items sold in the Xunwu Garden must have clean origins. If you have been through a broker, there is a possibility of buying and selling dirty things." Lu Yuelan pointed at Wang Dagui and asked him about the details of this benefactor, his real name, where he lives, and who he usually hangs out with.

Coming and going.

Wang Dagui kept asking questions and he didn't know. Finally, Lu Yuelan got angry and said that she would seal off all Wang Dagui's transactions and send all the ledgers to the Yamen for verification one by one.

Wang Dagui looked bitterly at his brother, and Wang Dafu didn't dare to say anything. Human life was also involved here, and if he was implicated, he might not be safe.

Zhao Pu felt that Lu Yuelan was a bit specialized in dealing with all kinds of dissatisfaction. Even though he was a scholar, his official style was quite strong. He was indeed quite suitable for the position of Taiwei. The military attache should like his style of conduct very much.

And his partner Fang Jingxiao...

The Ninth Prince looked at the briquettes on the shelf in the courtyard and the crows resting on the roof...

After Wang Dagui was "suppressed" by Lu Yuelan, he finally couldn't stand it anymore and told everything he knew.

He met this "en" master when he was drinking with his friends, and it was Yang Dalong who introduced them to him.

Zhao Pu and Gongsun looked at each other - Yang Dalong was the one who offered a reward for catching the big thief Yellow Turtle Dove... who was fooled around by Zhao Zhen.

Lu Yuelan asked the yamen servant and the two Wang brothers to go back and bring all the sales account records introduced by Wang Ji's wife Enfuzi.

After sending the people away, Gongsun asked Lu Yuelan if there was anything wrong with Yang Dalong.

Lu Yuelan nodded and said that they had been watching this Yang Dalong for a long time, and he might know a lot about the inside story of Lingdie Palace back then.

"Speaking of Spirit Butterfly Palace." Zhao Pu asked Lu Yuelan, "I just discovered that these birds are protecting you?"

When Lu Yuelan saw Zhao Pu pointing to a few crows on the roof, she smiled and nodded, "They will all gather nearby when Jingxiao is not around."

"To what extent can Fang Jingxiao control these birds?" Zhao Pu asked with great interest.

Lu Yuelan touched her chin, "Well, it depends on the situation. Jingxiao has been fond of small animals since he was a child. Sometimes some birds fly in front of him and chirp a few times, and he can understand what they mean.
To be continued...