The reason for the water leakage is that Madam Nine's personal maid, Que'er, accidentally knocked over the candlestick, and the fire started from the bed curtain. Mrs. Gu Jiu was weak, and the room was covered with furry heating objects all the year round, so the fire spread violently. It quickly enveloped the entire house.
Mrs. Gu Jiu has been separated from Master Jiu of the Gu family for many years due to physical reasons. The boudoir is located deep in the garden, quiet and secluded. When someone finds out that the house is on fire, the doors and windows have been sealed by flames!
There were many servants in the Gu family, and the fire was quickly brought under control, but unfortunately, neither the Ninth Lady nor Que'er could escape because they did not discover it in time. After the fire was extinguished, the ninth master of the Gu family led the guards to rush in to rescue the people. Both of them died of suffocation!
Standing in the crowd outside the yard, Lu Lixiao heard these discussions, his eyes became darker and darker.
The second master of the Gu family was just killed last night, and now the wife of the ninth master has also passed away. Going forward, Gu Qinghuan's whereabouts are still unknown, and Han Ziyi died strangely... The guests present shook their heads and sighed secretly, wondering what the Gu family had committed. !
Accompanied and comforted by several elders, Gu Jue and Gu Qi, the ninth master of the Gu family walked out of the courtyard with a dull expression and a pale face, followed by the bodies of Mrs. Ninth and Que'er covered in white cloth. An old man in the Gu family seemed to be He was afraid that Master Jiu would not be able to control his sadness when he saw the corpse, so he hurriedly waved his hands and asked the servants to take the corpse away first.
Seeing this scene, Lu Lixiao pulled Zhou Ziruo out of the crowd without a sound, and followed behind secretly.
Seeing that he was getting farther and farther away from Gu Jiu's courtyard, Zhou Ziruo asked Lu Lixiao in a low voice, "You just said that the person who hides a secret is Mrs. Jiu?"
"I'll talk to you about this matter later, now I suspect that the deaths of Mrs. Ninth and Que'er were not accidental." Lu Lixiao said.
Not an accident? Is it that someone killed them and set fire to disguise it as a fire
The servants carried the bodies of Mrs. Ninth and Que'er into the empty yard, and when they left, Lu Lixiao grabbed Zhou Ziruo's waist and climbed over the wall to enter.
Mrs. Ninth is the master of the Gu family, and her body will never be left here in such a silent way. Someone will come here as soon as the follow-up matters of the water are dealt with, so there is not much time left for them.
"Go and see Que'er, I'll check Mrs. Ninth."
Lu Lixiao put down Zhou Ziruo, strode forward, and lifted the white cloth from Mrs. Ninth's body.
The corpses had just been carried out from the scene of the fire, and they hadn't had time to clean them up. The skin of the two people was covered with dark brown soot. One can imagine the desperation when the house was closed by the fire and the smoke was dense and there was nowhere to escape.
Zhou Ziruo sighed twice in his heart, squatted beside Que'er, and said directly: "Runfa, you little expert in finding evidence!"
What could be more efficient than his conditioner in this time of clock-crunching time
[Good master! Obey the master! The function of searching for evidence is started, 1000 points are consumed, and the remaining points are 14000! Come on master!]
Que'er's smoky neck was lit with a tiny light, which flickered twice and then went out. Zhou Ziruo took off the water bag he carried with him, soaked his handkerchief, and wiped it carefully, until the black ash was wiped off. A bloodstain that was so thin that it was almost invisible!
At the same time, Lu Lixiao also had a discovery, he raised one of Madam Ninth's hands, squeezed her fingers and signaled Zhou Ziruo: "When ordinary people are suffocating, most of them will grab the things within their reach to relieve the pain of not being able to breathe. But Mrs. Ninth's fingers don't have any scars, and there is no substance in her nails. There is no need to check Mrs. Ninth's boudoir to infer that she has lost consciousness, or even died, long before she entered the water."
"The cause of death is the neck." Zhou Ziruo pointed at Que'er.
Lu Lixiao looked at the bloodstain for a moment, his expression became more and more cold.
"Both of them were smoked like this. It was night again. It would be difficult to find such small wounds when the Gu family came to tidy up their appearance later. The corpses were directly put into coffins, and no one would know the real cause of their deaths! The murderer beat them to death." What a good plan!" Zhou Ziruo sighed, and asked Lu Lixiao, "By the way, what secret did the Ninth Madam hold that caused the murderer to kill and silence her?"
Lu Lixiao was about to speak, but suddenly his expression turned serious, he picked up Zhou Ziruo and flew out of the courtyard wall, Zhou Ziruo heard the sound of the courtyard door opening amidst the wind, probably someone from the Gu family had come.
Zhou Ziruo originally thought that Lu Lixiao would take him back to Zhizhuyuan to analyze the case, but after leaving the courtyard, Lu Lixiao walked on a road he didn't know, and he came to a remote place deep in the Gu mansion with a clear destination. courtyard. From the outside, the courtyard can be seen to be quite large inside, but the stone steps in front of the door have fallen thin leaves but no one has cleaned them, so it should be a place that is not often cleaned by servants.
Lu Lixiao still had the door to go over the wall, and when he saw the only room in the yard, Zhou Ziruo let out a fresh "Huh". The square and gorgeous house has nothing to do with it. It really has its own personality.
"where is this place?"
Lu Lixiao picked the lock of the house with two or three clicks, and replied: "The place where the seventh master of the Gu family studies medicine."
Isn't that similar to a modern medical research institute
"You suspect Gu Qi?" Zhou Ziruo followed him into the room, saw Lu Lixiao lit the kerosene lamp on the wall, and closed the door behind his back.
"The Ninth Madam once contacted me alone without being talked about behind her back, and specifically mentioned her illness to me. There must be a hidden meaning in it. Although the Ninth Madam's illness has always been treated by a doctor, the Gu family's seventh master is proficient in medical theory. There should be relevant information here as well." Lu Lixiao took advantage of the not-so-bright light from the kerosene lamp to look around the room.
The inside of the room is also square, with a passage opened on one wall. The two of them went to look at it. At the end of the passage was a bedroom, which was probably a place where Gu Qi used to rest temporarily when he was studying medicine and forgetting to eat and sleep. There was only one bed in the room, and the quilts on the bed were stacked neatly. It should be that they hadn't stayed here since they were changed and washed.
This bedroom is clear at a glance, as long as there is no mechanism such as a secret room, nothing can be hidden, so the two retreated, intending to find it from the outer room.
The walls of the outhouse are lined with cabinets and long tables. There are hundreds of small grids on the cabinets, and each grid is hung with a small wooden sign indicating the medicinal materials stored. And the mess on the long table is almost unforgettable. The corpses of medicinal materials left over for research, all kinds of intact and damaged utensils, the messy bottles and jars that have never been cleaned, and the colorful spills everywhere. I don’t know whether it is harmful or harmless. Powder, and several pots of thick and disgusting unknown liquid...
Zhou Ziruo: ...
It turns out that the seventh master of the Gu family is not only unreasonable, but also a sloppy ghost! Isn't he afraid that these medicines will be mixed together in a mess and accidentally mix up a peerless and strange poison to poison himself to death? ?
"This... is hard to find, isn't it? Gu Qi is a drug addict. The mess here is like a garbage dump. He must have returned without finding anything!" Zhou Ziruo said weakly.
Lu Lixiao said: "The seventh master of the Gu family doesn't come here every month from the 14th to the 16th. This is what I heard from a servant who has served the Gu family for many years."
The two divided the work, one was in charge of the long table and the other was in charge of the medicine cabinet. Naturally, Zhou Ziruo didn't want to touch the pile of monsters and ghosts on the table, so he rushed to the nearest medicine cabinet and opened a small grid to pretend to be a detective. Seeing this, Lu Lixiao consciously came to a long table and began to study.
Zhou Ziruo pretended to pull it out and then pushed back a few small grids, taking advantage of Lu Lixiao's back to him, he said inwardly, "Small evidence search expert!"
[Ding! The function of searching for evidence is activated, 1000 points are consumed, and the remaining points are 13000!]
There was a light on the small medicine compartment on the vertical cabinet a few cabinets next to it, but when Zhou Ziruo passed by, the light had already gone out, and he was not sure which of the two unmarked compartments in front of him was lit just now.
It's not impossible to search for a small expert again, but seeing his dwindling points, Zhou Ziruo feels a pain in his flesh. Anyway, the clue is in one of the two grids, just check them all, why waste his hard-earned points!
Zhou Ziruo opened one of them, and found that what was placed in this grid was not medicinal materials, but a bunch of small fruits the size of cherries. These fruits were connected to the branches, and the color was bright red. up.
This kind of nameless fruit in martial arts novels is usually not a fuel-efficient lamp. Either you eat a god-defying medicine that prolongs life and greatly increases your skill, or it is a rare poisonous fruit that is so poisonous that you need XX grass XX snakes to fight poison with poison to relieve the drug.
Zhou Ziruo despises, hehe, hum, think he would twist one in a silly and sweet way to add drama to himself
But even though he was so careful not to touch the fruit, he never thought that even touching the branch connected to the fruit would cause trouble!
The overwhelming heat made Zhou Ziruo's legs go limp in an instant, but on the contrary, the thing between his legs was hard.
How could Zhou Ziruo, who had gone through human affairs, not understand what this fruit is now, and his whole face turned red immediately. Of course, he probably couldn't tell whether he was angry or dry.
The fruit of paralysis is too foul!
No matter how weird the aphrodisiac fruit in the novel is, it is still a fruit. Which genius wrote the branch is really stunning! ! This Nima is simply out of the ordinary way! !
Fuck, the medicinal properties of this branch are too overbearing, he has already burnt his body in just a few breaths! !
The clues are definitely not these fruits. It is rare that Zhou Ziruo still has the sense to pull another grid at this time, but he just let go of the halfway and knelt on the ground.
Lu Lixiao turned around when he heard the noise, and was surprised to see Zhou Ziruo's flushed face, and immediately came to support him, "What's wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable?"
"It's, it's okay... just don't touch me..." Although Zhou Ziruo said so, his body was honestly paralyzed on Lu Lixiao as if he had no bones.
He was short of breath, covered with fine sweat on his forehead, coupled with his watery eyes, Lu Lixiao hesitated for a moment and then guessed: "Did you touch something aphrodisiac?" After saying that, he looked up at the drawn grid, and got up. .
"Don't touch..." Zhou Ziruo desperately tugged at Lu Lixiao's leg, if Lu Lixiao was also tricked, the two of them would completely enter the wild beast state of being left alone for a while, maybe it would be absurd! ! !
Lu Lixiao cautiously didn't touch anything in the grid, frowned for a moment and said: "The water chestnut fruit grown in the Western Regions is bright red when unripe. It can be used to make wine or grind it and add it to aromatherapy lamp oil to make a bed. Add to the fun. When the fruit is ripe, it will turn dark red, and at the same time the juice will flow back into the branches, and penetrate through the skin when touched to achieve a strong aphrodisiac effect. Usually only the top rich and even the royal family have storage.”
Zhou Ziruo: "Thank you for introducing me so clearly..."
He doesn't need to know the origin of this fruit at all now, Lu Lixiao has the time to tell him so much, it's better to slap him unconscious and make him unconscious for a long time! !
Lu Lixiao looked at Zhou Ziruo for a while, then stretched out his hand to him, but instead of knocking him unconscious, he bent over and hugged him horizontally.
The author has something to say: Lingling fruit: the sacred fruit of the Western Regions, not taking the usual path! you deserve to have!
Brother Xiao: Short oil, not bad.
(*/ω＼*) Even the bedrooms and beds are prepared for them, and they even changed the sheets with freshly laundered sheets that no one has slept on~ I am so considerate~
Correct the typo tomorrow