Dali Temple Small Dining Room

  Chapter 96 Slap Fried Rice (2)

  Wen Mingtang fell silent when he heard this confession, and looked down at Tangyuan whose eyes were red from crying.

   Tangyuan raised her head, crying pitifully, met Wen Mingtang's gaze, and argued, "It's true, Master Wen, I saw the painted skin monster!"

Liu Yuantong couldn't help shaking his head when he heard that. Seeing Tang Yuan like this, he might not be able to help much. It was a headache to have a little girl crying while investigating the case, so he said to Wen Mingtang: " Master Wen, take the glutinous rice **** away first! The people around you are in Dali Temple, if there is anything wrong later, I will ask the glutinous rice **** later."

   Right now, the little girl is yelling about "painted skin monsters", but she can't ask anything. Maybe she will calm down later, stop yelling about monsters, and instead remember some details.

  Wen Mingtang nodded when he heard the words, and left with glutinous rice balls.

   After Wen Mingtang left with Tangyuan, Liu Yuan led the people to squat down, and looked at the man who said "painted skin monster" in Tangyuan's mouth.

  Because of the weird makeup on his face, it was difficult to see the specific appearance of the man for a while. However, judging from his figure, he was tall and thin, without looking at his face, wearing this kind of long-sleeved gown in the style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, he had a somewhat "immortal" feeling of becoming a fairy.

But right now, this person is lying there straight and turned into a corpse, with a ghost-like makeup painted on his face. The feeling of "fairy" has directly become that of "ghost". It's also weird in broad daylight. .

   Right now, before Wu Zuo came, the officer Liu Yuantong didn't touch the man's body. He just stood aside and looked at the man's body. He didn't see any external injuries.

  Although there is a thick layer of powder on the neck, you can still see whether there are strangle marks.

   There was no strangulation or other trauma, nor was it drowning, so... the most likely cause of death was poisoning.

  However, this person's lips are painted with bright red lipstick, and it is impossible to tell whether the lips are purple or poisoned before wiping it off.

  Liu Yuan looked down at the "painted skin monster" lying on the ground for a moment, and soon, Wu Zuo Wu Bucai's exclamation came from the entrance of the alley.

   "Zhao You is so stubborn, walk slowly, or your legs will break!"

  Zhao You dragged Wu Bucai three steps in two steps to the entrance of the alley, loosened Wu Bucai's lapel, glanced at Lin Fei behind him, and said disgustedly: "This old man walks too slowly!"

   Walking slowly can't be so "backfired"! Looking at the worn soles, Wu Bucai pointed at Zhao Youqi's trembling fingers, turned his head and snorted, and followed Lin Fei in front.

When he saw the "painted skin monster" on the ground, Wu Bucai couldn't help but exclaimed, touched the goosebumps on his arms, and said, "This corpse is too oozing, if you see it at night, you must be scared." You must die!"

  Liu Yuan glanced at Wu Bucai, who was exclaiming, with delicate eyes: "...It was indeed seen at night."

  Wu Bucai: "..." Looking at Liu Yuan's delicate eyes, he couldn't help but ask, "Which unlucky guy is he seeing?"

  Liu Yuandao: "The little handyman under Master Wen, the public chef, is making glutinous rice balls."

  Wu Bucai: "...that clever little girl?"

  Liu Yuan nodded, "Yes", and seeing Wu Bucai looking around for glutinous rice balls, he said, "I asked Master Wen to take it away first, but she spoke incoherently, and insisted that the one lying on the ground was a painted-skinned monster!"

  Wu Bucai: "..."

   Before he could speak, Lin Fei's voice sounded.

   "Painted skin monster?" Lin Fei tilted his head and asked Liu Yuan.

  Liu Yuan nodded, and told the confession about the monster who walked down from the painting with glutinous rice **** crying.

Wu Bucai listened, twitched the corners of his mouth, and couldn't help saying: "I heard this story when I passed the public kitchen that day. It was Master Wen who told her. An old man like me was shocked when I heard it. Don't say A Bing I'm the same as the two children of Tangyuan, I'm afraid they will have nightmares for several days when they go back!"

  Lin Fei didn't say anything when he heard the words, he just stretched out his hand to Liu Yuan and said, "What about the blank scroll?"

  Liu Yuan handed over the blank picture scroll from the guard.

Lin Fei took the picture scroll, glanced at the blank scroll, and then touched the side of the folded picture scroll with footprints on it. After a moment's pause, he pointed to the messy footprints on the side of the scroll, and asked Liu Yuan with a frown. : "Is this what you stepped on?"

  Liu Yuan: "..."

   It wasn't him who stepped on it, he came late and only came here this morning, but it was probably stepped on by the row of tall and burly guards behind him.

Seeing Liu Yuan turn his head to look at the tall and burly guard, Lin Fei didn't speak, but touched the side of the folded picture scroll, and asked Liu Yuan: "When you came here, was the picture scroll scattered on the ground? "

  Liu Yuan nodded, and said "Yes." After a pause, he added, "The little girl Tangyuan was so frightened that she didn't dare to approach the painted monster, so she pretended that she hadn't destroyed the scene."

  Wu Bu on the side heard this, and poured cold water on it coldly: "She didn't destroy it, but you did it!"

  Liu Yuan and all the servants: "..."

After pausing for a moment, Liu Yuan glanced back at the embarrassing officer, and explained: "Last night when I saw the glutinous rice balls, I screamed in fright, attracting many people to watch. Wait until the warm-hearted people go It was almost midnight when the Dali Temple beat the drums to report to the officials, and there were not many people in the government office except for the guards who were on duty at night..."

"A few of them are newbies with no experience. When they rushed over, they dispersed the crowd of onlookers first. On the way, they quarreled with the crowd and pushed them a few times. In the middle of the night, it was still foggy. clear…"

He had gone back early at that time and was not in the yamen. When he rushed over this morning, he was stunned when he saw the alley full of footprints, broken vegetable leaves and two smashed raw eggs on the ground. up.

   Except for the corpse and the picture scroll, it has not been trampled! Then the guard who came over early in the morning was in a hurry and stepped on the scroll edge.

  The whole scene was in a mess.

  The little girl with glutinous rice **** was scared and cried all night after being taken home by her family. She was still crying when she brought her here this morning, and she only knew how to call a monster. Liu Yuan's head grew dizzy looking at this scene.

   Dali Temple is going to solve a monster murder case, I am afraid it will become the laughing stock of the entire Chang'an City.

  After hearing this, Lin Fei fell silent. After a short pause, he got up and looked around.

  The corpse fell at the entrance of the alley, which can be seen everywhere in Chang'an City. The ground is bluestone and slate bricks, and the courtyard walls of the houses are on both sides. Two road sticks are erected at the entrance of the alley.

  Lin Fei looked up, looked at the lantern for a while, and then looked at the corpse lying on the ground again.

   After a long while, he said to Wu Bucai who was already prepared, "Let's do an autopsy!"

  Wu Bu nodded, put the suitcase on his back on the ground, squatted down and took a wet towel to wipe the makeup on the face of the deceased, Lin Fei suddenly said, "Wait!"

  Wu Bucai stopped the movement of his hands instinctively, and then saw Lin Fei pointing to the dark red lips of the deceased, saying: "This color is a little special red."

   I have something to do today, it's late

  (end of this chapter)