When we arrived at the bank of Weiyang Lake, the sky had already darkened. It had been nearly two months since Bo Ruoyou came here last time. The green willows on the shore of the lake and the crowds of tourists made it even more lively. Hou Yang and his horse were in front , took Bo Ruoyou's carriage, and walked west all the way, not long after, they stopped at a place guarded by Yacha.
The lights were lit up all around, and when Bo Ruoyou got off the carriage, she could only see the Lanyue Building in front of her, which was also bright and brilliant. Here, the colorful doors and vermilion thresholds, the bead curtains and embroidered curtains, are extremely luxurious and rich, the buildings are soaring, the eaves are continuous, and there are The covered bridge is connected with light and shade, looking up, it is as bright as a Qionglou. However, unlike the bustling buildings in the distance, it is extraordinarily quiet here.
The hustle and bustle of the drinkers and the witty laughter of the beauties that were supposed to appear all disappeared. As soon as Bo Ruoyou walked to the door, she saw that the lobby on the first floor was full of people, including prostitutes with light clothes and heavy makeup, and some serving tea The waiters, these people were all standing in the hall under the guard of the yamen, with panic and resentment on their faces, and their eyes looked to the second floor from time to time.
Hearing the noise, all the people looked towards the door together, and saw that the Yacha came in with a woman who was described as beautiful and extraordinary, everyone was surprised, after all, this place is an ordinary place where no woman comes in when welcoming guests. Not to mention there is still a murder.
"Miss Bo, the deceased is on the second floor."
Hou Yang led the way, while Bo Ruoyou carried a small wooden box and walked up the stairs amidst everyone's suspicious eyes.
Bo Ruoyou glanced at the noble-decorated lobby, then scanned the crowded crowd, and her eyes fell on the corridor on the second floor. The Lanyue Tower looks gorgeous from the outside, but it is also extravagant and gorgeous on the inside. The manly red gauze is attached to the lantern, which faintly reveals the entanglement of men and women painted on the lantern, and the lights are shining everywhere. , but I don't know what spices were added, which made the whole building filled with a gaudy sweet and greasy smell.
There are three floors in the building, and there is no one in the corridor on the second floor. Although there are lights and candles in the rooms, the doors are closed and there is no one in the room. Bo Ruoyou followed Hou Yang, along the After walking a few steps forward in the corridor, I saw a room with a wide open door. Hou Yang walked to the door and stopped, "Girl, this is here—"
Hearing the sound, there was a sound of footsteps coming out of the house, but it was Wu Xiang who greeted him. Seeing Bo Ruoyou, he glanced down, then lowered his voice and said: "I was looking for Xiao Hu, but Xiao Hu You know you are sick, so I had to go to you, sorry, let you come to this kind of place for an autopsy."
Bo Ruoyou laughed, "It's all on errands, it's the same everywhere." As he spoke, he glanced inside the door, "Is the deceased inside the house?"
Wu Xiang nodded and led her into the house.
The water-red gauze inside the room is covered by a water-red gauze, and it is roughly similar to the decorations that Bo Ruoyou and Huo Weilou saw when they went to Huo Qinghong before, but it is different from the sweet and greasy powder smell outside, there is a faint smell in this room. Choking smell.
Besides Wu Xiang, there are three other people in the room. Bo Ruoyou first looked at a young woman kneeling on the ground with red eyes from crying by the window. There are some suspicious red marks on the outside of the neck, Bo Ruoyou naturally understands what it is, besides her, there is also a woman wearing a fine dress with a thin face, she looks about 30 years old, her face is exquisitely made up, and her eyebrows There was a bit of sternness in the room, probably the owner of the brothel, besides this, there was a middle-aged man in a coarse long gown standing beside her, with a bitter face, and glancing at the woman on the ground from time to time.
Seeing Wu Xiang leading Bo Ruoyou in, the three of them looked over, the woman raised her eyebrows first, "Wu Butou, what does this mean?"
Wu Xiang said: "This is the work of our yamen."
The woman's name is Yun Niang, and she is the madam of Lanyue Tower. She was surprised for a moment, and then said nothing more. Wu Xiang took Bao Ruoyou and walked straight behind the heavy gauze. A screen was lifted to the side, and on the bed against the wall, there was a middle-aged man lying naked.
Wu Xiang said: "This person's name is Han Jiang, he is the owner of a jade shop in the East City, and he is a regular customer of Lanyue Building. He arrived this afternoon." He pointed to the woman kneeling outside, "Her name is Yunxiu, and she is a very popular girl in Lanyuelou. Han Jiang paid for her for half a month. Today is the seventh day. After coming, the two of them ate wine and vegetables, and then rolled onto the bed." , Yunxiu said that she didn't do anything, and Han Jiang died suddenly halfway through."
Wu Xiang was a little embarrassed when he said this to Bo Ruoyou, he was slightly relieved when he saw Bo Ruoyou's serious face, and said: "I have already checked roughly, and what Yunxiu said is not different, and there is nothing wrong with it. It doesn't seem like poisoning, but I also asked the servant who came with Han Jiang, and the servant said that Han Jiang was in good health on weekdays, and he was a veteran when eating flowers and wine, so it was impossible for him to die so suddenly , He said that Han Jiang was murdered by that girl."
Bo Ruoyou listened to the general idea and understood how the case happened, nodded, "Let me take a look first."
Wu Xiang agreed, stepped back two steps and whispered something to Hou Yang.
Bo Ruoyou opened the box, put on the gloves, and then walked a few steps to the bed.
Han Jiang lay prone on the bed, with the messy bedding under her body, nothing on her body, and there were a few obvious red marks on her back. She checked the red marks first, and then turned her body around with some effort. come over.
Bo Ruoyou looked at Han Jiang with a frown. His eyes were closed, there was a little saliva on the corner of his lips, and his lower body was in a mess. On closer inspection, he could still see a lot of blood, and the light red mattress on his body On top of it, there are also many suspicious things. When you get close, you can smell a faint smell of sandalwood. Bo Ruoyou took out a face towel and put it on, before leaning over to examine it carefully.
The guards outside couldn't help but get closer. Seeing a young and beautiful woman unabashedly inspecting a naked dead man, they felt that the scene was a bit weird and creepy, and the kneeling Yunxiu also She couldn't help standing up, and when she moved, Yunniang and the middle-aged man at the side immediately stared at her.
Yunxiu couldn't help crying again, "Sister Yun, it really has nothing to do with me..."
Yun Niang gritted her teeth and said, "Don't cry for me, do you know how much real money I will lose if I make a fuss today?!" After scolding Yun Xiu, she couldn't help but look at Bao Ruoyou through the gauze curtain. But the words were directed at Wu Xiang, "Wu Butou, I remember that the autopsy in your yamen used to be a young son, why is it now a girl?"
There are often troubles in the place of fireworks, and Wu Xiang has some friendship with these people. At this moment, Wu Xiang gave her a sideways look, "The one you mentioned has been ill recently, and this girl is from our yamen. New here to help, don't underestimate her."
Yunniang laughed dryly, "How dare I, no matter if it's a son or a girl, as long as we can prove that Boss Han's death has nothing to do with us."
Wu Xiang rolled her eyes, "You are the boss, so it really has nothing to do with you."
Yun Niang snorted slightly, "Wu Butou should know that these things are what we are most afraid of when we do this kind of business. Firstly, this is unlucky, and secondly, it is bad for our reputation to be involved in a lawsuit of human life. Therefore, our girl We are all well-trained, but ah, there are some men in this world who insist on showing off, and we can only count ourselves as unlucky when we encounter such a horsemanship."
These words mean that Han Jiang is not good enough, Wu Xiang sneered, "Don't say it too early, what's going on, we'll have to wait for Wu Zuo to finish the autopsy to find out."
Yunniang couldn't help but frowned, looking at Bo Ruoyou's gaze also became uneasy.
Through layers of gauze curtains, Bo Ruoyou's back was hazy. After waiting for two sticks of incense, Bo Ruoyou straightened up. She looked out, her cold eyes falling On Yunxiu.
"Miss Yunxiu, please come in and tell me what happened today."
Yunxiu was astonished, but she was a little dumbfounded. Yunniang's voice sank, "Don't tell me? What's going on? You must explain clearly. If people say that you killed Han Boss, I can't keep you."
Yunxiu couldn't help crying when she heard this, and after entering the heavy curtain tremblingly, she was about to kneel in front of Bo Ruoyou, but Bo Ruoyou couldn't help but said, "Go and sit beside me and talk."
As Bo Ruoyou spoke, she looked at her trembling legs. She was walking on the intricately embroidered Fufu without shoes, and her footsteps were a little shaky. Hearing her words, Yunxiu wiped the corners of her eyes He went to sit on the embroidered stool beside him.
"What does the girl want to ask?" She asked timidly.
Bo Ruoyou looked as usual and said: "Just bring Han Jiang over this afternoon, and tell me in detail what you ate, what wine you drank, how much you drank, and what you did afterwards."
Yunxiu had already said this to Wu Xiang, but Bo Ruoyou was a member of the government, so she didn't dare to take it lightly if she was asked to say it again, so she sobbed and said, "... the wine is just a common thing in the building. Hundred Flowers Brewed…”
"Hundred Flower Noodles?" Bo Ruoyou frowned.
"It's... just ordinary shochu... it's just a different name. Boss Han has been very caring for me these days. Every time I come here, I'm very anxious, and I didn't drink much. Later... I went to the inner room , he was very interested, but he didn't start right away, but... he lit the incense, especially when he got a new good thing recently... "
"I wasted half a stick of incense in the middle of it, and then he got more excited, and he was happy with me as usual, and he vented once in the middle, but he didn't stop, and today it was so violent that I couldn't bear it. "
She glanced at Bo Ruoyou, surprised that she didn't show any embarrassment, although she said these words are normal, but Bo Ruoyou is a girl from a good family, how can she be so calm
Yunxiu was surprised for a moment, and then said: "His thing never died down, so he continued to vent for the second time, and it didn't take long before he vented again, but he still didn't stop, and vented three times in a row, and it was going to be the fourth time. Suddenly, he hummed a few times in a low voice. At that time, I only thought he was getting better, but I didn’t think he didn’t let it out, but he was lying on top of me and couldn’t move…”
"I don't know what's wrong with him. I pushed it a few times but didn't push it. When I found something wrong and went to check his breath, I found that she had passed away. Now that I think about it, he was probably in some pain before death." Yun Xiu's face showed fear, and she didn't dare to look at Han Jiang's body. After speaking, she huddled into a ball and shed tears silently.
Bo Ruoyou frowned and asked, "Is he like this before?"
Yunxiu shook her head, "I wasn't as excited as I am today, at most once or twice before, he was a frequent visitor to the building, and before he hired me this time, he often asked me to accompany him, because of this, I let him do it today. It made me uncomfortable so I didn't dare to say anything, I thought I would be tired, but I didn't expect him to die..."
Yunxiu covered her face and wept. There were quite a lot of bruises on the ankles of her calves exposed on the gauze dress. Looking at her neck and wrists, there were also more marks. Bo Ruoyou listened and thought for a moment, "The fragrance you said where?"
Yunxiu wiped away tears, "It's just an ordinary aphrodisiac. I added a new one recently, but it's no different from the previous one." She got up and went to the cabinet to take out a small brocade box, walked over and handed it to Bo Ruoyou went to the side and brought the incense burner over, and showed Bo Ruoyou the burnt incense ash inside.
Bo Ruoyou looked at the incense ashes first, then opened the brocade box, and saw that there were formed incense towers and incense powder in it, and a brocade bag contained some brown-black debris, which smelled a bit bitter and pungent. What is it.
Seeing Bo Ruoyou examine these things carefully, Yunxiu hurriedly said: "These things were commonly used in the past, because some customers didn't have these things, so... they couldn't gain momentum, and some customers wanted to have more fun, so everyone knows Yes, and this time it was Boss Han himself who said that he wanted some incense, so naturally I dare not go against it."
Yun Niang said outside: "That's true. We have these things in every girl's room. Everyone is using them. I have never seen anyone have any accidents. The things we have here are just for fun and not harmful to the body. Many people They all like it very much.”
Bo Ruoyou hesitated for a while, and handed the brocade box to Wu Xiang. Wu Xiang knew something strange when he saw this, "How?"
Bo Ruoyou said: "The body has no external injuries, nor did it die from suffocation. The cause of death should be the induction of some hidden disease. As for what kind of hidden disease, I will only find out after an autopsy." She glanced at the bed again, "It can be decided temporarily. Died by accident."
Yunniang breathed a sigh of relief outside, Yunxiuyi's eyes lighted up slightly, but Bo Ruoyou said again: "Although it was an accident, these aphrodisiacs are also considered accomplices. Is there any excess, or is this substance poisonous?" , just looking at the incense ash in the censer, there is no way to judge."
Yunniang said outside: "It is impossible to overdose, and it is impossible to be poisonous. Even if you use a lot of these things, the effect is only for a moment."
Wu Xiang handed the brocade box to Hou Yang, "Our yamen will investigate what you said. Before this case is settled, you don't open the door to welcome guests at Lanyue Tower."
Yunniang's complexion changed when she heard this, and Wu Xiang looked at Yunxiu again, "You don't want to leave Lanyue Tower for half a step."
Yun Xiu Nuo Nuo agreed, but at this moment, there was a heart-piercing cry from the entrance of the lobby downstairs. Hearing this sound, Yun Niang couldn't help but hold her forehead, and then told the man next to her, "Go down and fight!" wear some."
The middle-aged man turned around and went down, Yunniang looked at Wu Xiang and said, "Captain Wu is going to decide for us, we don't know the cause and effect of this time, if someone wants to kill someone, you must stop them."
At this time Yunxiu also retreated into the room, seeing Wu Xiang and Hou Yang looking at each other, she whispered: "Boss Han's family's wives and concubines are all shrews, they used to come to the brothel to catch him, now that he's dead, let's hold the moon I'm afraid the building will be torn down."
As soon as this was said, the sound of crying and yelling downstairs immediately sounded. Wu Xiang hurried out to look at the lobby on the first floor, and sure enough, she saw several women in fine clothes leading the servants and maidservants to smash the lobby on the first floor. , while walking quickly upstairs, when the first few people saw Wu Xiang, they knew where Han Jiang died, and immediately ran towards him.
Wu Xiang frowned, and immediately ordered the yamen to stop the miscellaneous people downstairs. The woman in charge was Mrs. Han Jiang, and she cried at this moment: "This Lanyue building killed people, my lord, you died so badly!" …”
When she yelled, everyone in the back shouted the words "Lanyuelou kills people", Yunniang listened to the first two, Wu Xiang stepped forward to negotiate, and only after a while did they let them in, and a group of people went straight in. After entering the curtain, when he saw Han Jiang's death, his face showed even more resentment, and he turned to look at Bo Ruoyou and Yun Xiu, and at a glance, he could tell that Yun Xiu was the charming girl. Hou Yang who was standing inside hadn't realized it yet. , several people rushed forward to tear Yunxiu apart.
The scene was chaotic for a while, Wu Xiang followed in to pull people away, and seeing Bo Ruoyou was blocked inside, seeing that she was about to be affected, she hurriedly sent her downstairs and got into the carriage, Wu Xiang said with a bitter face: " I will send the corpse to Yizhuang, you wait in the carriage first, it is too messy up there."
Bo Ruoyou also felt that it was so good, so he waited in the carriage. In front of the Lanyue Tower, the officials guarded it, and the people watching the excitement did not dare to approach, but apparently the news of Lanyuelou's death had already spread. From time to time, new people came to point and point. Bo Ruoyou waited for two sticks of incense in the carriage, but Wu Xiang was sweating profusely, and there was no dead body behind him.
Wu Xiang said at the car window: "Xiao Bo, I'm afraid we won't be able to do the autopsy today. The wives of the Han family don't want to have an autopsy, so they insisted that Lanyue Tower killed Han Jiang with poison, and they are still talking about it now. It's late, you go home first, and if the autopsy can be done tomorrow, I will order someone to call you."
Thinking of the scene just now, Bo Ruoyou also felt a little dizzy, so she responded, and quickly left in front of Lanyue Tower. When she returned to Cheng's house, she told about today's case, and Cheng Yunyi immediately said, "This Age, most likely because of hidden diseases, which have not been noticed by others, or because the fragrance is a bit weird." He shook his head, "If there are hidden diseases, but you are addicted to drinking and sex, something will happen sooner or later."
Bo Ruoyou knew that her guess was correct, and she only hoped that Wu Xiang could appease the Han family smoothly. Only after the autopsy tomorrow can she determine the cause of Han Jiang's death.
Because I went to Fengming Mountain during the day, Bo Ruoyou felt a little tired, and after talking with Cheng Yunzhi for a while, she went back to her room to take a bath and rested. She slept very well in the past, but this night she somehow started dreaming In the dream, the streets were full of fiery trees and silver flowers, and the long street was lined with lamp buildings, which made the whole market feel like it was never at night. She was walking in the market in a daze, being attracted by the lights in front of her. I was dazzled, but for some reason, I suddenly heard a jingling sound...
Bo Ruoyou gasped in shock, and woke up suddenly. Her heart beat like a drum, and her forehead was covered with cold sweat. What a nightmare.
She lay down for a long time before her restless heart calmed down, and after a while, she fell into a deep sleep with drowsiness. She slept until dawn, and she got up as usual. The people arrived, and Wu Xiang finally convinced the Han family!
Bo Ruoyou went to Yizhuang in a carriage, and when he arrived at the gate of Yizhuang, Wu Xiang was already waiting in front of the gate. His eyes were black and blue, and his chin was covered with green stubble. He knew that he didn't sleep well last night, so he took her inside. As he walked, he said: "It took a lot of effort to make sense. I also ordered someone to check the fragrant medicines yesterday. They are indeed common things. Not only Lanyue Tower, but also several houses around are using them." , but the new ones are only available in Lanyuelou and a few others. I asked the owner of Lanyuelou, and she said that she didn't know what it was, but this kind of medicine has obvious effects. I will use others again, and our people have also sent them to the doctor, who can’t explain the toxicity, but many people in Lanyuelou and the other two have used it, and nothing happened.”
Bo Ruoyou knew that good and evil were mixed in the place of fireworks, and it was even more difficult to distinguish the good and bad of the things they used. Most of what they said would not hurt their bodies had not been proved, but it would not be so easy as to kill them. All the way into the back hall, Han Jiang's body was indeed inside. After one night, Han Jiang's body had changed, and some scars appeared under the surface of the body.
It's just that these scars are not fatal wounds, they are just scratches and scratches left by men and women when they were in love. Bo Ruoyou still performed the autopsy according to last night's deduction. At this moment, there is no one in the back hall. When she was angry, she suddenly thought of Hu Changqing, and she asked Wu Xiang, "Has Catcher Wu visited Hu Yuzuo?"
Wu Xiang sighed, "I went, but I didn't see anyone in the afternoon the day before yesterday. The door of the house was closed. The police sent people to look for him yesterday. They said that he was paralyzed on the bed, and he looked very serious. I will go to see him another day. Let's see."
Bo Ruoyou frowned, she thought Hu Changqing was just pretending, but is he really sick
Putting this thought away, Bo Ruoyou continued the autopsy, and after another half an hour, she wiped the thin sweat from her forehead and said, "It is true that she died suddenly of a hidden disease."
Wu Xiang had to come forward, Bo Ruoyou said: "His heart's blood vessels are a bit clogged, there are bleeding spots on the surface of the organs, and there are signs of rupture. Any human organ that looks like this is hard to survive. This is similar to being punched to death in the heart, but he has no external injuries, the only explanation is that there are hidden dangers in the organs, and then it was induced by excitement."
For the matter of the bed, he used aphrodisiacs, and Han Jiang repeated Suo Huan, so he was very excited. Wu Xiang understood that Bo Ruoyou's vision was indeed as he expected, and his heart was relieved. She sewed up the corpse, and for some reason suddenly looked at the head and face of the corpse. When she saw Han Jiang's corpse yesterday, she calculated the cause of his death from the bottom of her heart, so she didn't look at his face carefully, but now she looked at it after a night. Then he noticed that Han Jiang's eye sockets were sunken, his eyes were blue and black, his complexion was haggard, and his body felt a little thin.
This feeling made her feel familiar, but thinking of Han Jiang's indulgence in drinking and sex, she felt that it was only natural.
Seeing that the cause of death had been determined, Wu Xiang also breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, a servant came in from the outside, "Arrest, the Han family is here, today Han Jiang's younger brother is also here—"
Wu Xiang nodded, "Let them in, just in time to take the corpse back."
The Yacha went out, and led a group of people in after a while. Bo Ruoyou looked up, first saw a few familiar faces from last night, and then saw a strange young man following behind.
This person presumably was Han Jiang's younger brother, but when he saw his expression, Bo Ruoyou frowned.