On the seventh day of the tenth lunar month, at three quarters of the hour.
- "Search for me, not a single bottle is allowed to fall."
As soon as the voice fell, the guards of Jingzhao Mansion immediately surrounded Baixiang Pavilion.
Lu Yan stepped over the threshold, fiddled with the cuffs, and said to Shen Zhen, "Please also ask Miss Shen to take out all the incense powders that are placed on the table in the pavilion and hidden in the warehouse, and arrange them one by one. "
Shen Zhen listened to the ear-piercing word "Zang", frowned slightly, stood up slowly and said, "Lord Lu, what does this mean?"
Lu Yan's face was as usual, and he said as usual: "One of the guards next to this official fell into a coma after coming here yesterday. The reason is still unknown. He came here to investigate the suspicion as usual. If there is no problem with the fragrance powder here for the girl." After speaking for a while, he pointed to the outside and said, "The people outside will be evacuated immediately."
After Shen Zhen heard this, her heart sank.
Yesterday, the person who wanted the debt was sent away with great ease. How could he provoke someone from the government again today? Since he has experienced home raids, Shen Zhen is particularly resistant to such scenes outside, for fear of another incident.
She took a step forward and said cautiously, "Does Master Lu have a search warrant on him?" The reason why Shen Zhen asked this was that she knew that the government would not issue a search warrant if there was no definite evidence to investigate the case.
Without a search warrant, she naturally had the right not to let them in.
Shen Zhen's reluctance to cooperate, in Lu Yan's eyes, became an act of fear of sin.
He glanced at Yang Zong, who immediately handed out a search warrant.
Below the command text, is his eloquent word - Lu Yan.
"Miss Shen just hand over the key to the warehouse. This officer will find someone to help you move it. After all, Jingzhao Mansion has a lot of business and can't afford to delay it." After he finished speaking, he waved his hand without waiting for Shen Zhen to answer.
The guards outside came in.
Shen Zhen looked at the search warrant in her hand, and was secretly uneasy in her heart. She couldn't help but use some force and crumpled the paper.
Seeing this, Lu Yan said again: "The things of the official family must not be damaged."
Shen Zhen froze, her fingers stuck in place.
Knowing that the other party was fully prepared, she couldn't dodge if she wanted to, so she turned around and walked back to the desk, opened the drawer, took out a bunch of keys, and handed it to Lu Yan.
Lu Yan took it, took seven steps forward, and opened the door of the warehouse. He ordered the guards to move quickly, while he stayed beside Shen Zhen and watched her.
For fear that she will come up with some more psychedelic sorcery.
After a while, they carried several large boxes to the center of the room.
One of the guards stood up and bowed: "Sir, the storeroom is empty. My subordinates knocked on the wall, and there are no other secret rooms."
Lu Yan nodded, looked down at Shen Zhen and said, "You answer truthfully, that's all?"
Shen Zhen raised her head to look at him, her eyes magnanimous, "There were originally some, but they were all smashed yesterday."
Lu Yan recalled yesterday's scene, and said "um".
After a while, three doctors came in. They opened the bottles and jars one by one, smelled them, crushed them, smelled them again, and crushed them again. When they were all checked, a full hour had passed.
They reported from left to right, "Reporting to my lord, the ones in the flat jars are good rouge powders, which are used for women's makeup. Mouth fat coming out soon."
Another person said: "I'm all fans from afar, official fans from Hangzhou, etc."
The last person had the most varieties, he spoke a little slower, and said slowly: "These are all raw spices, including Dangmenzi, navel incense, cinnamon, chrysanthemum, jasmine, and some incense sticks, coil incense, tower incense, and incense. Pillow . . . and nothing else.” (1)
As Shao Yin of Jingzhao Mansion, Lu Yan naturally knows some pharmacology. After listening patiently, he couldn't help frowning and said solemnly, "But did you check carefully?"
The three nodded in unison, and said in unison, "I checked myself."
Lu Yan obviously didn't believe this result. He glanced at Shen Zhen's dignified eyes and slightly trembling hands with the corner of his eye, and immediately felt that there must be something missing.
After a while of silence, Lu Yan turned his head to the crowd and said, "You go out first, and don't let anyone in without my order."
After everyone retreated, for a while, only the two of them were left in the room.
Lu Yan quickly surveyed the whole room, and finally, his eyes fell on a hollow sandalwood cabinet.
There are two fans on it, one is a palm fan embroidered with begonia flowers, and the other is a folding fan with Junan water pavilion painted on.
He took two steps forward, took down the folding fan, and snapped the fans together. Turn around again.
Shen Zhen thought it was over just now. Seeing Lu Yan walking towards him again, she couldn't help but take a step back and said, "What are you doing, my lord?"
Lu Yan didn't talk to her, and only used his tall stature and the aura of being an official for a long time to force her into the corner.
In the blink of an eye, the dark purple official uniform was only half a foot away from Shen Zhen.
His voice was thin, like an inhuman cool breeze, "Miss Shen cooperate with this official to search her body and raise her arms."
Shen Zhen was born in the Hou family's direct daughter, it's not like the ordinary daughter's family is scared when she sees the official, she is afraid of returning, but still has a sense of reason, "I see the appearance of Mr. Lu, it doesn't look like he is here to do business with justice. Yes, it seems to be here to insult me, a defenseless woman."
Listening to her secretly changing the concept, Lu Yan couldn't help sneering: "If this official wants to bully you, there are thousands of ways, don't play tricks, lift it up."
Although Shen Zhen was frightened, she still bit her head and said, "Is there no female official in Jingzhao Mansion?"
Lu Yan was silent, but those cold and aggressive eyes were telling her - don't force me to do it.
The Jingzhao Mansion does have female officials that can be dispatched, but sometimes in order to seize the time and not lose evidence, the superior will also do it himself. Even if men and women are different, they can still be replaced by things.
Shen Zhenping sucked his head up and looked at him, he didn't want to lift his arms, his pointed fingernails secretly exerted force, and the flesh on his palms pressed red marks.
Lu Yan took another small step forward, and this time, the two of them were about to stick together. Lu Yan's cold smell completely broke Shen Zhen's line of defense. She closed her eyes and raised her arms.
His fingertips trembled slightly, and his heart was ashes.
Knowing that she was a woman, Lu Yan had not yet left the cabinet. Seeing that she cooperated with the search, she also accepted the idea of intimidating her, and only held the folding fan and leaned towards her body.
As soon as the fan bone touched her, her whole body turned red like a boiled crab.
Across the clothes and the distance of a fan, Lu Yan could still feel her trembling.
Lu Yan's heart was not distracted, he used the fan bone to stick to her raised arm, following her outline, all the way down, his hands were neither light nor heavy, and he would slap once or twice from time to time. careless.
Those two places alone, he thought about it, but didn't touch it.
"Turn around."
Shen Zhen bit her lip, for fear that she would make any sound.
In the whole room, only the sound of moving footsteps and the rustling of clothes were left.
She turned her back to him, even more uneasy. But because he avoided the place where she was most afraid of him touching, he felt that he should not be lustful, so he whispered to him, "Sir, can you hurry up?"
Lu Yan used the fan bone against her back to search all the way up, and suddenly stopped at her neck.
The fragrance overflowed, and he suddenly remembered the beauty mole that was born in his dream.
Everything in that dream wandered in front of his eyes again, and he used a fan handle to lift her three thousand blue silk like a bridegroom's red hijab.
He watched as the mole in front of him gradually overlapped with the one in the dream.
The positions are exactly the same, all born on the neck of her bullying saixue.
Lu Yan's expression was slightly stunned, and he suddenly pulled back his hand.
Seeing that the shadow shrouded her side suddenly left, Shen Zhen turned back instantly.
With those sparkling eyes, she stared at him motionlessly, and said word by word, "Master Lu, are you done with the investigation?" If her lower eyelashes hadn't grown longer, I'm afraid the big drop of golden beans would be smashed like this. down.
It's not just why, Lu Yan looked at her like that, and his heart suddenly hurt, and it was that kind of pain. He resisted it, clenched his fist to his lips and said, "It's over."
"What's wrong?"
"No."
After being fiddled with like that, Shen Zhen's hair was all messed up, her eyes were red, gouging him out, and questioning: "Dare to ask your lord, if there is a problem with my fragrance powder, then why, Master Lu, you have no problem, you Didn't you come here yesterday?"
As soon as the words fell, even Lu Yan, who was the best at keeping his face straight, couldn't help but follow Yi Xu.
But this man has been an official for many years, and naturally it is not something that Shen Zhen can ask after a few sentences.
He looked down at her, a pair of black pupils, instantly passing her line of sight, "It is the duty of the common people to cooperate with the government in handling the case. This official has shown you the search warrant and cleared your suspicions. What is the dissatisfaction with Miss Shen? ?"
Shen Zhen was speechless.
Even though his heart was full of dissatisfaction, he still did not dare to contradict him.
Lu Yan looked at her little face, her chest hurt badly, walked past her, and said solemnly: "This officer has other things to deal with, and two people will be left outside to help Miss Shen carry these boxes. Go back." Having said that, he bypassed a red lacquered wood screen and left.
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After returning to the yamen, Lu Yan realized that he was still holding the folding fan in his hand.
On the fan bone, it seems that there is still a refreshing aroma.
He irritably closed the case file, a dark fire in his heart.
If she has no problems, what is the matter with the successive dreams? Is it possible that it can still be like what those Taoist priests in the rivers and lakes said, that it is the memory of the previous life
joke.
Just as he was thinking, it was evening.
Today, the streets are lively, with red silk covering the floor, cheers and laughter, gongs and drums, a few children jumping, pointing at the sedan chair and shouting: Bride! Look! It's the bride!
Lu Yan hasn't finished writing his submission, but he feels that it's too noisy outside, his face is heavy, his head is covered with dark clouds, and he can't wait to throw all the crying children home.
It was getting louder and louder outside, and the matchmaker's voice was about to hit the clouds.
Immediately, Lu Yan raised his head and threw the wolf in his hand towards the pen holder.
At this moment, Zheng Zhonglian, the Yin of Jingzhao Prefecture, and another young Yin Sun Xu walked in together.
Sun Shaoyin bowed to Lu Yan and smiled, "Is Mr. Lu still busy?"
Lu Yan got up and returned the salute, "Master Zheng, Master Sun."
Zheng Zhonglian said to Lu Yan with a blushing face: "The case of Sun's family in Wannian County is finally closed. It is indeed his daughter-in-law who poisoned him. Her parents' family was rich and even dared to pay for it. If you want me to say, murder her husband. , the crime is punishable, but it has been handed over to Dali Temple, we can take it easy, Master Lu is fine tonight, let's go out for a drink together?"
It's true that the two of them just asked this question, so be polite. After all, they asked Lu Yan to go out for a drink many times, and he mostly refused.
But also, those places of fireworks are not very suitable for this noble prince.
They never thought that Master Lu would put down his usual neat clothes today, and said with a smile that was not a smile.
The author has something to say: (1) The content of spices comes from the paper "Research on the Production, Utilization and Trade of Plant Spices in Ancient China"
Some readers gave Lu Yan a nickname - President Lu.