Chapter 6

Yanshi is east of Luodu, close to Luoshui, Mid-Autumn Festival in the Han Dynasty, although it is just an inconspicuous ordinary festival, it is the day when the city is bustling with people all over the market.

Cheng Zongyang squeezed all over and slapped the air with his sleeves: It's all like this, how can I find it?

Find an inn first

Cheng Zongyang looked up and down at Lu Jing

What to look at?

I see what identity you are wearing this time

Lu Jing turned the coat over and turned it into a green official uniform. Then he picked up the silk thread on the sleeves, flipped the cuffs, and opened it to become a wide sleeve of the public uniform. Then he took out a belt and tied it around his waist.

Chasing the runaway slave

While Lu Jing said, he took out a leather bag and tied it to his lace decently, revealing the yellow ribbon in the bag, and then tidied the square scarf on his head. He took out a black thing from his arms, folded it a few times, turning it into a Jinxian crown, put it on his head, and finally his face turned a rough face, showing some power.

Lu Jing took out a brand new brush, hairpin on the side of the crown, and handed Cheng Zongyang a bear hat, letting him dress up as a servant.

Seeing Lu Jing transforming into a low-level official with a salary of 200 stones, even following him, Cheng Zongyang couldn't help but laugh: Good idea, good means!

It's still a little bit short

What's the difference?

Dog Lu Jing said: It would be more like if you want to bring a dog

Cheng Zongyang had seen a dog-carrying dog in Han Dynasty. The problematic little bitch was taken away by Xiao Zi. Even if he was not taken away, he could not take a pug to the streets to patrol.

Cheng Zongyang said: Let's make do with it, I can already feel awkward in this way

Cheng Zongyang didn't expect that his words would come true. The effect of this outfit was not ordinary. The two of them originally planned to go to the area where inns gathered and search one by one from scratch. Unexpectedly, the first one I found was that there were a lot of people outside.

Seeing the two of them coming, the people separated from each other like a tide, making way for a way, and yelled: Here comes! Here comes!

What is coming? Are we talking about our own traps? Cheng Zongyang was upset, but now he was already in a difficult situation. Brother Lu was walking proudly in front of him. He was really embarrassed to turn around and leave, so he could only follow behind with his teeth and wonder what was going on?

As soon as he walked to the inn gate, a fat man in brocade clothes rushed out of the shop. He shivered and screamed: The official is finally here! It’s not about villain!

Lu Jing put his feet in a slight manner and said in a calm voice: Talking slowly

The fat man cried and said: They rented a small courtyard and said they would not disturb anyone who knew... Who knew that the servant went to deliver the food just now. After taking a long shot, no one responded. When he opened the door, he realized that something was wrong... Official, the villain is innocent!

Who lives?

A businessman from another place also brought a concubine

Lead the way ahead

Seeing the scene, Cheng Zongyang realized that he was really coincidental. A male corpse in the guest room had a bloody crime. No wonder the owner and the onlookers believed in their identities. Most of them had sent people to report the case to the county and encountered them coming to the door.

The county's subordinates will come at any time, and time will not be delayed at all. Cheng Zongyang winked at Lu Jing, reminding him to make a few nonsense, and quickly escape to avoid being blocked by the real county magistrate and subordinates.

Lu Jing understood and said: When did he stay in the hotel?

Four days ago August 11th

What do you usually have to do with outsiders?

Nothing has happened and no one has come to look for it

Lu Jing pretended to ask, after all, he was here to find someone, not to investigate the case, so pretending was enough

Did you hear any abnormal movement last night?

There was no movement at all!

Lu Jing asked a few more questions, turned around and was about to leave. The waiter in the store came in with the book. The owner quickly took it and opened it, pointing to it and said: This is what they left when they stayed in.

Cheng Zongyang looked at it and saw that it said: Yiyang Chen Feng, Yan Yu

Lu Jing had half his foot on the threshold. At this time, he stopped quietly, took the book, took a few glances, and then said: I want to inspect the scene, you can go out first

The owner was unwilling to stay in the dead house at all. He heard this and hurried out, but he didn't even dare to stay in the yard. He also thoughtfully closed the yard gate.

Cheng Zongyang's face suddenly collapsed, I'll do it! This is a coincidence!

Lu Jing also lowered his face. It was indeed a coincidence. The two of them were ready to search for Yanshi. Who knew that they could find the main owner without any effort, and they didn't expect that the person they found would be a dead person.

Cheng Zongyang was puzzled, why did something happen?

Lu Jing couldn't help but sigh, Five hundred gold coins, this was wasted

Okay, Brother Wu, let’s stop talking about Jinzhu

Let go

Lu Jing ignored the male corpse and went straight into the inner room. The scene in sight shocked both of them.

The bed, floor, wall, and several cases in the indoor... are all covered in blood. A female corpse is lying in this pool of blood. It can be seen from the skin of the female corpse that it is a girl. Her naked body is covered with terrifying scars. It is obvious that she was tortured and killed after being tortured. Her right breast has a deep tooth mark, and her nipple is almost bitten off.

Cheng Zongyang was frightened. Just looking at the scars on the girl's body, you can feel the various tortures she suffered before her death. The murderer was simply a pervert who enjoyed sorrow, and was completely venting his perverted desires! What made him even more unacceptable was that the girl's head was gone without a trace, leaving only the headless corpse.

Lu Jing wiped the blood, three hours ago

Isn't that midnight? Who will the murderer be?

While checking the body, Lu Jing said: At least three people, although there are many wounds on her body, except for the cut off her head, there is no fatal thing, that is, she was alive before she was beheaded.

Cheng Zongyang took a deep breath. He was indeed a pervert, and there were three more...

The tragic situation of the girl's corpse made Lu Jing frown. Because the damage was too serious, there were not many valuable clues except that the murderer was perverted and very perverted.

The two searched the room but couldn't find the head of the female corpse. It was probably taken away by the murderer. Lu Jing's eyes swept over various items indoors one by one, and finally stopped on a backpack.

There were a few pieces of clothing in the backpack, some scattered copper baht, a silver baht that was not opened and dozens of gold baht. There was also a small bag with a few scarves and a roll of silk. When I opened it, it was a picture of a lady.

Cheng Zongyang felt a strange feeling in his heart. Since entering the Han Dynasty, he had witnessed more than one murder. What's even more evil is that none of these murders were for the purpose of robbing money. Is blood revenge so popular in the Han Dynasty?

Without time to take a closer look, Lu Jing put away his backpack and went out to find the uneasy shop owner. He asked a few serious questions. Then he took off the brush on the side of the hat and wrote a receipt for the temporarily detained items. He untied the leather bag on his waist, took out the copper seal with the yellow ribbon inside, and stamped it with the seal to indicate that the official had received the report from the shop owner, inspected the scene, and then took the temporarily detained items and went there with the long ones.

Such a murder occurred in the store. The owner was no longer interested in running the business, so he had to block the yard and waited in the store with anxiety, for fear of causing trouble, but he was not only sitting in the house, but also disaster came from the sky, but also disasters did not go alone for a quarter of an hour. The Yanshi County Captain received the report and came to the door with his subordinates. Naturally, after another half an hour, a notice was posted outside the Yanshi city gate, capturing two murderers who pretended to be officials, and also accompanied by portraits of the two.

The headless bloody case of Yanshi Inn spreads to all directions at a rapid speed, but no one knows that the two murderers are still in Yanshi at this time, even next to the inn

Lu Jing and Cheng Zongyang did not go far. They changed their clothes in the back alley, dressed up as two travelers from afar, passed by the county magistrate of Yanshi who had rushed over, and opened a room in the inn next to them with their backpacks, and lived in calmly.

There are not many clues to the items in the backpack. Several pieces of clothing are ordinary. A road guide from the Yiyang government proves that Chen Feng is a local person. He is 25 years old. He has no need to have any letters or notes other than that.

The silk used in the picture of the lady was quite inferior, and the paint was just the pine and ink and cinnabar. A woman sat in front of the mirror with a high bun on her head, and she couldn't see anything unusual.

Cheng Zongyang sighed: I thought I could follow the clues by finding a clue. Who knew it was so troublesome? I just got a clue.

Lu Jing said: I went to Yanshi on August 11th and went to Shangtang on the ninth. If there was no other reason in the middle, Chen Feng would probably be the little white-faced person who was sitting on the ground tiger.

Chen Feng's head was cut off and was thrown indoors. Cheng Zongyang also noticed that although the man was so scared that his face was distorted, his face was quite pale and he could deserve the title of a novice face.

But this is just a guess. Cheng Zongyang is now seriously experiencing what it means to be entangled. He hopes that Chen Feng is the little man, and he hopes that if it is, it means double the loss. It is not five hundred, but that one thousand gold baht is lost at once and one thousand gold baht is not a small amount. With the sucker of Yingyang Hou, who is willing to pay for money, what a good opportunity to get rich! As a result, he finally found someone, but he had already slipped away from his hands in a different way. Cheng Zongyang was full of unwillingness, but he had no choice but to do anything.

But then again, if Chen Feng was not that little boy, it would mean that there was one more person to be found and he had to get another needle in the sea. This was no less difficult than five hundred gold pounds

Cheng Zongyang sighed in confusion. If Chen Feng was also in the foot shop that day, four people had been found, Yu Fengwen, Du Huai, Chen Feng and Yan Yu, only know that there was an old man playing the violin and a scar-faced boy so coincidental today. It would be better if we were going back to Luo to try our luck. Maybe we could meet the old man playing the violin.

Lu Jing said: If we were to go back to Luodu, we would have gone back long ago, so why should we stay in Yanshi again?

What is the plan to come out?

Lu Jing stood up and said: Let's go find a porter!

Why? Didn’t you say it’s hard to find it?

It was difficult to find, but now we know that Chen Feng is a businessman

you mean……

Those porters were probably brought by Chen Feng

But how do you know where those porters are? Yanshi?

Chen Feng is from Yiyang, and the most famous production in Yiyang is lacquerware. Lu Jingdao: Let’s go to the lacquer shop in Yanshi first.

Cheng Zongyang jumped up, what are you waiting for!

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The experience over the past two days made Cheng Zongyang confident in Lu Jing. As a result, he found it all in the afternoon. The two of them had no choice but to come back today. The good luck seemed to have been exhausted in the morning. They searched all the lacquer shops, utensil shops, and even all the foot shops in Yanshi, but they did not get any useful information. Not to mention that they had been to the soup in recent days, no one had seen Chen Feng described by Lu Jing.

In the end, Lu Jing had to give up this clue. Although Chen Feng was in Yanshi, he seemed to have no business related to lacquerware.

Back at the inn, the two of them ate something casually. Lu Jing squatted on the mat, holding steamed buns in one hand and dipping them in water with chopsticks in the other hand. He drew and pondered on the table.

Chen Feng and Yan Yu lived in one room. Yu Fengwen and Du Huai lived in another room. The guest in the upper room was probably a scar-faced boy, or it might not be an old man playing the violin. If so, there would be five people in the upper room.

Lu Jing chewed the steamed buns. A porter could carry 120 kilograms. If there were five porters, they would be 600 kilograms of goods, what would it be...

It was the first time Cheng Zongyang saw a silk painting from Han Dynasty when he was looking at the picture of the lady. The painting was mainly drawn with lines, and the brushwork was concise and bright. It was obvious that the painter was very skillful. Although the paint on the silk was very ordinary, the ink was poured on the silk, and the edges of the lines were blurred, the woman with uniform and smooth handwriting was beautiful and beautiful, and she looked a little pretty. The woman looked at the mirror, raised her fingers, and there was a little bright red on her lips. It seemed that the color of the rouge and cinnabar was very bright. However, the painter seemed to be a little careless when coloring, and even the back was stained... the back?

Cheng Zongyang turned the silk painting over, and there were a few blurred red pieces on the back. The shape of a palm could be vaguely seen when they were connected.

Cheng Zongyang raised his head and said as calmly as possible: Fifth Brother, guess what business is Chen Feng doing?

Lu Jing knocked on several tables with chopsticks. In addition to lacquerware, Yiyang also has...

Cinnabar!

Lu Jing stopped the chopsticks, then swallowed the remaining half of the sorghum steamed bun in one bite, and returned to Luodu!

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Yiyang does not produce cinnabar, but cinnabar is very useful in the Six Dynasties. It is not only a medicine that can promote the spirit, but also an indispensable raw material for elixir making. It is also an important source of cosmetics. It also has another use, which is the pigment of lacquerware.

Ji Jin had just started a business a few days ago. The generous income made him immediately take a concubine. Now he was sitting in the store. He was sunny in the afternoon and was drowsy. He yawned and missed his newly acquired concubine more and more. He just wanted to go back and take a shower quickly and enjoy it with his fragrant concubine.

A shadow flashed in front of the door, and someone came in and Ji Jin tried his best to smile and said to the customer: I wonder what you two want to buy?

A guest with two chins and looking fat and big ears said: Dansa

Ji Jin was excited and the customer was right. The cinnabar in our store was all the best cinnabar! The large piece was several pounds, and even if it was grinding to the point of fine dust, the color was still dark red and bright!

The customer said with a panting stomach: How much does a pound cost?

Ji Jindao: Cinnabar is sold for two, one or two to twenty

A customer next to him said: Where can I pay twenty? You can buy a large bag of ten yuan.

The customer with a tummy belly laughed and said: I'm the first time I've come to Luodu. I don't know that this is a direct market, and the goods in the city are not bargaining.

Ji Jin was delighted. This fat man is an amateur! The direct market in Luodu is indeed unfair. It is said that it is as much as it is, but this place is in Nanshi, and it cannot be matched with the direct market.

The fat man said readily: Twenty is twenty! Smack me some

Ji Jin smiled and said, "I wonder how much cinnabar the guests want?"

The man opened his palm, five hundred pounds!

Ji Jin opened his mouth wide and said for a while: To be honest, the shop is only more than one hundred kilograms at the moment

Not even five hundred kilograms?

Five hundred pounds are not a small amount. If they can be sold, they will have the money to take a concubine. Ji Jin cheered up and said: If the customer wants it, the goods will be available tomorrow.

That guest is very easy to talk to, tomorrow will be tomorrow!

Another customer poured cold water: Five hundred pounds are too much, we can't move them again

Ji Jin hurriedly said: There is a special foot carriage in the city to carry cinnabar, so it doesn’t take any effort for two people.

There are also special footworks? Where?

Chen Jijiaojie, in business, customers will know it when they ask! Ji Jin was afraid that the business would go away, so he quickly told the Chen Jijiaojie store, which specializes in cinnabar, to the two in detail.

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Chen Jijiao Xing's agent shook his head. My store never leaked the identity of the guests and the entrusted items. I will not be able to obey you if you ask me.

Lu Jing, dressed as a housekeeper, tapped the counter with his fingers and said impatiently: Those porters broke the chensha used by my marquis to refine elixirs! Those who knew the truth called those people over. Let my marquis not know how to deal with your feet, but you can't get rid of your footwork!

The agent was not angry and said lightly: Right and wrong will be discussed. If it is the fault of my traveler, my travel will be compensated. But what the gentleman said was that six days ago, my travel has its own rules. I have to read the books of the city that day. I will not be able to obey my mission.

The butler patted the counter and said: You said it would not be said!

I'm sorry to obey

Seeing that the two of them were about to be stiff, Cheng Zongyang leaned over and leaned on the counter and said: We are also servants in the mansion. After all, the man who ran errands for the Marquis was just the fault of those porters. What does it have to do with your business? Do you think so?

Cheng Zongyang said, while slightly raising his sleeves, revealing a few white and bright jam coins.

The agent stared at the silver chunks and slowly said: Does it have nothing to do with my business?

Of course it doesn't matter, but if you can't find someone, it's hard to say if the Marquis gets angry... Cheng Zongyang said, pushing a few silver chunks under the broker's sleeve.

The broker's attitude finally loosened. If it had nothing to do with my business... He raised his hand and pressed the silver chunks, then coughed, let's take a look

The agent wiped the silver zhu into his sleeve, took out the book, raised his hand and opened it. On the ninth day of the eighth month... It's here, how many porters are there in my trip to Hangu Pass

How many people?

Three people

Is the guest's surname Chen?

The agent looked straight and nodded slightly, but said: I can't forgive me

Cheng Zongyang pushed another silver zhu over. Are the three porters in the process now?

The agent glanced at the record quickly. Niu Laosi and Niu Laoqi brothers went to Yique to pick up goods. Shi Manzi didn't go out until the 18th.

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A thin man stepped into the courtyard gate with his waist. The man was dark-skinned and wearing a short jacket made of kudzu. He lowered his head and carried a shiny elm shoulder pole on his exposed shoulders. The muscles of his arms raised like steel wires. The protruding parts of the bones on his shoulders had been smoothed by the heavy burdens for many years. At this time, the shoulder pole was firmly placed on it, carrying a bucket of water in front and back. In order to prevent the water from splashing out from being splashed out, two lotus leaves were covered on the water.

Lu Jing called out, Shi Manzi

The man raised his head and saw that his eyes were sunken, his pupils were faint yellow, and his twisted beard was connected from his cheeks to his temples, but he was a Hu man

Shi Manzi glanced at the two of them, then walked to the corner of the yard silently, put down the shoulder pole, poured two buckets of water into a large jar, picked up a scoop of water, scooped the water, gudong and drank it

Lu Jing and Cheng Zongyang exchanged a glance. Luoduoduo had many Hu people living together, but they didn't know whether this Shiman was a Hu slave captured by the army, or whether the Hu merchants who lost their capital and could not return to their hometown, or the Hu descendants who settled.

Lu Jing snorted coldly and said with a stern face: Shi Manzi, do you recognize me?

Shi Manzi drank water without responding to his words

Lu Jing said sternly: On the ninth day of the lunar month, were you at Changxing Foot Shop where you were served?

Shi Manzi shook his hand with the lao

Cheng Zongyang breathed a sigh of relief secretly. He was also worried that Shi Manzi could not speak well, and that would be troublesome if he couldn't understand what Lu Wu Ge said.

Lu Jing looked vicious and said: We are from the Nancheng Martial Arts Hall! That day, Master Du and you lived in a bed with you. Did you pretend not to know each other?

Shi Manzi put down the water scoop, lowered his hands and said nothing

Brother Du originally returned to his hometown to get married, so he brought a pair of Yuhuan as a betrothal gift. But when he returned, he realized that one of them had been broken! Did you do it?

Shi Manzi lowered his head, and the water stained on the beard fell down one by one, but he did not wipe it off.

Lu Jing slowed down, Brother Du said that there were eight people in Tongpu that day, and it might not be that you broke it. But he couldn't remember who was in Tongpu that day, so I'll ask you Brother Du remembered that there was a scholar that day, right?

Shi Manzi didn't move, he didn't respond, nor did he say he didn't say he wasn't.

There are three porters in total, you, Niu Laosi and Niu Laoqi, right?

Shi Manzi remained silent

There are three people left, an old man playing the violin...

Shi Manzi raised his face and said in a naughty and weird tone: Hu...qin is Hu...qin...

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On the carriage, Cheng Zongyang said angrily: The barbarian can't speak Chinese, no wonder he can only be a porter.

Lu Jing punched his hand in his palm. It turned out to be the old man playing the huqin, but I didn't expect it!

Didn’t we know this long ago, the old man who played the violin?

Do you still remember what Du Huai said? The old man even broke the piano. Lu Jing said in a deep voice: Not many people can play huqin, and even fewer can be repaired in the whole Luodu. Only one store makes huqin

Where is it?

Jinshi!

The two rushed to Jinshi immediately, but they were stunned. The people from the house of the house were summoned to perform, but they did not open today.

Lu Jingdao: Go and find the Niu brothers

There is no hurry to be in one day. Cheng Zongyang said: I have been with you for two days. Not to mention watching the scenery of Luodu, I don’t even have time to take a breath. Today is August 15th, Mid-Autumn Festival, so don’t go back to your apartment. We all go to Pengyi Society and gather together tonight

It was midnight to Yique. I wanted to find two porters, but I had to wait until dawn to see this. Lu Jing did not object. They walked towards the business where Pengyi Society was located.

It was the beginning of You, and the government offices began to withdraw from the yamen. The streets were full of caps. The bustling Luodu was very different from Lin'an. The bustling in Lin'an was closer to the public. The noise, enthusiasm and chaos of ordinary people were everywhere. Walking on the street, there were endless hawking sounds on both sides, and the crowds of people were crowded. In the past, Cheng Zongyang watched costume films. Officials were holding signs that were quiet and avoided. They thought these officials were too arrogant and proud. Only on the streets of Lin'an knew that it was not a sceptic, but a real need. If they didn't hold the sign, even Jia Shixian would not move.

The lively Luodu is another kind of traffic on the streets is no less than Lin'an, but the orderly streets are all equipped with quality cars. There are at least two horses pulling the car, and there are four horses. When running, the four horses are driving side by side, and even the steps are controlled by the drivers. Most of the carriages are open, with crank umbrellas on the back, and the black painted body is painted with vermilion cloud patterns. The officials on the car wear high crowns, which are very majestic.

The aristocrats traveling were even more amazing. Cheng Zongyang saw a team of chariots, with nearly a hundred riders carrying armored swords and armored horses in front, followed by two rows of riders carrying bows, followed by dozens of guards and guests next to the carriage, two long rows of servants and maids, carrying various lacquer boxes and utensils, walking along the way with several teams for more than a mile. The officials and pedestrians avoided them.

Such a singularity is not much worse than the emperor's patrol. If it weren't for the big name Sun on the flag, Cheng Zongyang would have thought the emperor had come out of the palace.

This family has a big show, surnamed Sun... Cheng Zongyang originally planned to go to the ancient Taiquan formation first, and then go to Jiankang to find Yun Ruyao. It was a pure accident in the Han Dynasty and he didn't have time to understand the Han Dynasty's government and opposition. After thinking for a long time, he didn't remember which nobleman named Sun in the Han Dynasty and asked: Who is it?

Huyang Jun

Although he did not do his homework, Cheng Zongyang also knew that the feudal king of Han was different from the Qin and Zhaonan. The noble man of Han was a marquis and a woman was a vassal king. Cheng Zongyang was even more surprised.

He is a princess of the royal family? But why is his surname Sun?

Have you heard of the Lu family?

Of course I have heard of it, the post-school Ah

Huyang Jun is Lu Ji's wife and sister, you will understand that the Lu family is the relative of the Liu family, and the Sun family is the relative of the Lu family.

Cheng Zongyang looked incredible. He had heard of the foreign relatives of the Han Dynasty for a long time, but after thousands of years of history, he only saw the story as a story until he saw with his own eyes that a woman in the Lu family had such a show. He knew how prominent the status of the Lu family should be. The Lu family was not only a foreign relative, but also a foreign relative for generations. Han Dynasty always had a system of empress dowagers following the government. Regarding the actual time of rule, the Lu family was probably not much worse than the imperial family.

At this moment, a carriage came towards Huyangjun's carriage. A man in a black robe stood on the carriage and pulled the reins. The carriage was blocked in the middle of the road. Then he jumped out of the carriage and walked towards Huyangjun's carriage.

The soldiers in front of the car rushed over to take down this brave man, but seeing his appearance clearly, he immediately restrained his arrogance.

The man sang: Dong Xuan, the gate of Luodu, ask to see Huyang Jun