All the way out of the flower market, Wen Yizhi happily told Yu Yun and Xue Mulin what happened on the roof just now.
"... I didn't expect that this parrot thing is getting more and more unusual. The thief may be a beard! Ayan, you too, look at that little guy surnamed Feng, it is impossible to cooperate with us, why tell him so much."
Wang Yan raised his lips: "I lied to him. I went to Jingzhao Mansion in the morning and learned that they were investigating a murder case of a Hu businessman. This man surnamed Feng went there in person. But just now he appeared here in disguise, there must be someone Strange."
Wen Yizhi came to a sudden: "Do you think these two cases are connected! Could it be that Hu Shang was the one who stole the parrot? Why was he killed again? That parrot shouldn't be something special."
Yu Yun and Xue Mulin smiled and waited for Wen Yizhi to finish posting a string of suspicions, before Xue Mulin said slowly: "It just so happened that when you were investigating the case on the roof, Ah Yun and I got a big gift by accident."
Wen Yizhi was surprised: "What?"
Yu Yun covered her mouth with a fan, and smiled mysteriously: "There are many people here, the ceremony has been transported outside first, and we can see each other when we go out."
After leaving the flower market, Yu Yun's entourage led the way and led them into a tea house.
The teahouse had already been cleared, the boys closed the doors, and respectfully led the four young masters upstairs.
Wang Yan walked to the innermost private room on the second floor: "What kind of gift is so grand?"
Yu Yun and Xue Mulin smiled and said nothing, the waiter in the teahouse retreated a few steps in front of the door, Yu Yun's entourage pushed open the door, and Yu Yun took the lead in stepping in: "It's hard for us to let you, Wang Yan, guess. See. "
On the chair in the room, a man covered with a cloth was tied tightly. Yu Yun's entourage lifted the cover, and it was a young man who was exposed to everyone's sight.
Black clothes, black hair, unusually fair complexion, and a straight nose.
Wang Yan looked at the light golden eyelashes on his closed eyelids: "Open your eyes, I know you are a barbarian."
The boy's eyelids moved and slowly lifted, revealing a pair of blue eyes.
Yu Yun shook his fan slowly: "Since we arrived at Xu's shop, he has been sneaking around. My servants saw something unusual and quietly took him down. It just so happens that you, A Yan, found out about Fanbang's clues. It's a criminal sent to your door. Let's see how you interrogate."
The boy's blue pupils shot out fearless light, staring at Wang Yan fiercely.
Wang Yan dragged a chair and sat down: "I'm not used to embarrassing a woman with a group of people. Girl, since you understand Chinese, can you tell me the origin of your name?"
Wen Yizhi was shocked: "This is a woman?!"
Wang Yan said lazily: "Nonsense, if it weren't for the beautiful woman, how could these two gentle scums laugh so nastyly and choose their words so carefully."
Wen Yizhi was stunned again, and glared at the girl: "Then can she understand us?"
Yu Yun shook his fan: "Since you come to me and follow you in disguise, you must understand something, otherwise, let's take a look first?"
Wen Yizhi's expression became serious: "Where are you from? What's your name? Why did you follow me and invite you quickly! Otherwise, it wouldn't be the same treatment if you were sent to Dali Temple!"
The girl pursed her lips tightly, her eyes flushed.
Wen Yizhi was startled: "Hey, I didn't say anything about you, let alone torture you, why are you crying?"
The girl also glared at him, her blue pupils were like gems in the spring water, which was soul-stirring.
Yu Yun patted Wen Yizhi's shoulder: "You will get married in two months. As someone who has experienced it, I have to teach you a word. You shouldn't be so awkward with your wife in the future."
Wen Yi was puzzled: "A bearded female suspect, do you want to spoil her?"
The girl bit her lower lip again, and suddenly said a few words jerky: "Kill me, please."
Wang Yan held down Wen Yizhi, and sat down opposite her: "How much can you understand when we talk?"
The girl didn't answer.
Wang Yan said again: "We arrested you only because you followed for no reason. The state has laws and regulations. Even if you are a barbarian, no one will kill you casually here."
The girl blinked: "I don't understand the four words."
Wang Yan said slowly: "We will not kill you. Do you understand?"
The girl nodded.
Wang Yan slowed down his voice a little more: "What's your name? Where are you from?"
The girl lowered her eyelashes: "I, Isia, the master's servant."
Wang Yan said: "Who is your master?"
The girl lowered her head even more, as if she didn't want Wang Yan and others to see the tears on her face: "Master, he's dead. They took Master away. I'll follow that lord. You guys, catch me."
Wen Yizhi was stunned: "Could it be that she is the maidservant of the dead Hu merchant?!"
Yu Yun tapped the folding fan on his palm: "It seems so."
Wang Yan continued to ask softly: "Your master, why did you die?"
The girl's shoulders shook violently: "I'm back, master, I'm dead. There's blood all over the ground."
Wang Yan leaned over: "Why didn't that adult take you away?"
The girl struggled to swallow her choked sobs: "I hid."
Wang Yan snorted: "Why hide, they can help you find the murderer."
The girl bit her lips again: "Master, I'm afraid, adults. I, I am afraid, too. I don't have a document."
Her speech has always had a strong barbarian accent, except for the word Wen Di, which is exceptionally standard.
With a clear face, Wang Yan glanced at Xue Mulin.
Xue Mulin's face was full of innocence: "The certificates required for people from other countries to live and sell in Beijing are all issued by the General Secretary of Jingzhao Mansion. We, Honglu Temple, don't care about this matter."
Wang Yan turned to the girl again: "Who killed your master?"
The girl shook her head again: "I don't know, master, sell goods and don't mess with others."
Wang Yan asked warmly: "Your master, do you sell birds?"
The girl looked bewildered.
Wang Yan waved his hands like wings: "Bird, talking, parrot. Have you ever seen it, or heard your master mention it?"
The girl's eyes lit up, and she nodded vigorously: "Yes, master, it's very strange, parrot."
Wen Yizhi stepped over: "Grey?"
The girl froze and stopped talking.
Yu Yun and Xue Mulin pressed Wen Yizhi, dragged him back a few steps, and Wang Yan's voice softened a little: "Parrot, where is it?"
The girl said: "In the past, it was in the house. Now, I don't know."
Wang Yan waved his hand, and several attendants hurriedly untied the rope on the girl. Wang Yan got up, looked down at the girl's blue eyes, and smiled slightly.
"Girl, can you take us to your house?"
The dead Hu merchant lived in Ligongfang Fruit Cake Lane in the southwest of the capital.
Wang Yan and the others changed to a carriage, took Isia with them, and rushed to Ligongfang. Continue to interrogate Isiah along the way, and spell out pieces from her stuttering answers—this Hu merchant is Guhande, a native of Shansi, in his forties, has lived in the capital for five or six years, and sells blankets and mats and pewter. Birds were never sold.
Wang Yan asked: "When did he have that parrot?"
Isia said: "A few days ago, I saw it. No, it was intentional, master, I don't know."
Wang Yan imitated her speaking order and asked: "Parrot, where did your master get it?"
Isiah shook her head: "I don't know, it's a secret."
Wang Yan asked again: "Where did he put the parrot?"
Isiah made a gesture of pulling the door: "Inside."
Guhande's shop does not employ a clerk, and he and Isiah are usually the only two people in the family. He has little money and no other servants.
Yu Yun and Xue Mulin exchanged meaningful glances.
Isiah called Gohhand a good man and a good master. He has many friends, likes to drink, sleeps after drinking, and does not beat or swear.
Wang Yan then asked: "When you found the body, did you smell alcohol?"
Isia shook her head: "Master, don't drink, it's in the morning."
She found the master dead yesterday morning. In the morning, she went out to buy vegetables, and the owner was fine. When she came back, she found the owner lying on the ground. She panicked and ran out, and the neighbors helped her report to the police.
Wang Yan asked again: "Will your master be with his friends before he dies?"
Isia shook her head again with tears in her eyes: "Master's friends, I won't come, in the morning. There is no one else."
Wang Yan narrowed his eyes slightly: "Why didn't he go to the store?"
Isiah choked up: "The officials said that we need to investigate. Everyone, the store was not opened that day."
Yu Yun said with a smile: "It seems that Jingzhao Mansion is not targeting a certain area this time, but treats them equally."
Wang Yan ignored her and continued to question Isiya.
Isia said that when the official came, she was very scared and hid. Because she didn't have a certificate, she was afraid that if she was caught, the officials would drive her away and not allow her to stay here. She didn't know how to live without leaving here.
The neighbors who harbored her were all friends of Guhande, and they all lied to the Jingzhao Mansion that they did not know where she had fled.
Wang Yan said: "Since you are afraid, why did you follow that lord?"
Isiah lowered her head: "He is strange."
Wang Yan asked warmly, "Why is it so strange?"
Isiah paused, as if trying her best to form a sentence: "He, came, a few days ago. Said, check, the store is closed. Yesterday, the owner, died. Today, in the morning, he, came again. It's strange to change clothes. I followed him."
Wen Yizhi interrupted: "What change of clothes?"
Isiah froze again, looked at Wang Yan again, and gestured on her body: "I saw it, from the window on the second floor. At first, he was wearing the clothes of an adult. Later, he went into such a car and changed into a , the clothes of grass people."
Wen Yi knew, "I dare you to think that this person was there before and after your master's death. It's very suspicious. For the sake of your master, you can be regarded as a loyal servant if you follow him regardless of your own safety."
Isiah looked blank: "Loyal servant?"
Wen Yi knew: "It's just saying hello."
Isiah froze again and lowered her head.
Wen Yizhi frowned: "Praise you, what are you afraid of?"
Isiah raised her eyelashes, looked at Wang Yan again cautiously, and sat aside.
Wen Yizhi snorted, and Yu Yun and Xue Mulin laughed again: "Master Wen, what should you do after you get married."
When we arrived at Deli Gongfang, it was time to apply. Ligongfang is considered a medium-sized area among the gathering places of several large Hu merchants in the capital. Most of the Hu merchants in this area sell leather goods, spices, felt blankets, and small toys. The sun is westward, a warm smell of fur mixed with the smell of spices floats into the car, and the streets are crowded with high noses and deep eyes, and the South accent and North tune are rolling.
Wen Yizhi lifted the curtains of the car, looked at the animal heads or body ornaments on the fur stalls on the street: "Could it be that the parrot has become like this?"
Isiah shook her head: "It's not like that."
Wen Yizhi imitated her tone: "Anyway, catch the prisoner, it's fine, that's it."
Yu Yun pretended to be Liu, and held up a parrot ornament that didn't exist: "Grandfather, my grandson has found a parrot, and it can be raised for at least two hundred years without eating!"
Xue Mulin nodded: "My dear grandson is very filial, step back." Yu Yun knocked on him with a fan, and several people laughed, Isia looked blank, and Wang Yan pointed: "They, here, it's not good, don't worry about it. "
Yu Yun, Xue Mulin, and Wen Yizhi turned to Wang Yan and rolled up their sleeves together. At this moment, the carriage stopped, and the servant announced that Guozi Cake Lane had arrived.
Wang Yan smiled and bowed to Xue Mulin: "Master Shaoqing please first."
Xue Mulin raised his sleeves solemnly: "Acceptance, acquiescence." Getting off the car in full clothes, Xu Bu walked into the alley.
Several officials from the Jingzhao government office greeted them from the depths of the alley: "The place where the crime happened, no one else is allowed to approach!"
The entourage beside Xue Mulin scolded "Bold", and held up a token.
All the government servants saw the decorations on the clothes of the entourage, and when they saw the words "Honglu Temple" on the badge, they immediately fell to the ground.
Xue Mulin calmed down and continued to walk in. The yamen servants got up and said, "Master Xue, a homicide occurred in a courtyard inside. I have to offend you, why are you here?"
Xue Mulin smiled slightly: "I heard that a Hu businessman died here, so I want to go in for a walk."
Several yamen servants were stunned, and Xue Mulin's entourage shouted: "Our lord is here for official business. If there is any delay, you can afford the punishment?!"
The yamen servants didn't even dare to say that they didn't dare, and stared stiffly at the ashesed face behind Xue Mulin, whose surname was Wang they recognized, and Isia, who was wrapped in a cloak, making it difficult to see her face clearly.
Xue Mulin said with a smile: "These are my entourage. If you have any doubts, you can ask Mr. Li. If there is anything wrong, just come to Honglu Temple to find me."
The yamen servants hesitated for a moment, then moved out of the way: "My lord, please."
Xue Mulin's entourage entered the deepest gate of the alley first, and drove out all the people in Jingzhao Mansion.
"Official secrets, no one else is allowed to enter! Be sure to guard the surroundings, not a single fly can enter!"
The yamen servants of Jingzhao Mansion swallowed their anger and claimed that they were, and watched Wang Yan and Xue Mulin swagger into the door. A yamen servant quickly ran out of the alley and galloped towards Jingzhao Mansion.
Xue Mulin's entourage closed the courtyard door behind his back, completely blocking the people of Jingzhao Mansion from the door. Xue Mulin just let out a long breath, grabbed the fan in Yu Yun's hand and fanned it.
"Wang Shenduan, solve the case quickly, I will risk my life for you!"
Wang Yan grinned and scanned the courtyard: "Be sure to ask Ah to thank us well later." Then he looked sideways at Isia who took off his big cloak, "Where is the parrot?"
Isiah walked quickly to the main hall: "Here."