On the carriage, Xiang Xiaotian kept scolding Pang De for being domineering and taking advantage of his master's wealth. After Chen Mengsheng comforted Xiang Xiaotian, he turned around and asked Shangguan Yanran, who was in a daze, and said: "Junior sister came out of Pang Mansion.
What were you thinking about on the way? Where is the You family now? "
"According to the records, You Futian's home should be an old house in Pang's family in Qujiang."
After hearing this, Jiang Meng, who was driving the car, took a breath and said: "Qujiang is still three or four hours away from here, and we have to go out of the west gate of Yangzhou Prefecture. It seems that we can't go there today. Let's go back tomorrow morning."
Go ahead."
Chen Mengsheng nodded and said to Jiang Meng, "It's almost dark, so just follow Brother Jiang's advice and go tomorrow."
"Hey, brothers, please stay at my house tonight. Some of the guys gave me a big dog this morning. I didn't even have time to clean it up, so let's make hot pot and eat dog meat."
Xiang Xiaotian said with great joy: "The relationship is so good. The food we eat in the restaurant during the day is too sweet and greasy. If you have dog meat to eat, what are you waiting for? Come to your house quickly..."
The general who defended the city was considered to be of the eighth grade. Although the general's mansion was not a large official residence, it was a single-family courtyard. As soon as everyone entered the courtyard, they saw a big yellow dog weighing only sixty or seventy kilograms hanging on a straw rope under the eaves.
It was frozen hard all day long.
"Okay, one yellow, two black, three flowers and four white. Among the dog meat, this yellow dog meat is the most fragrant. Brother, you go find a pot to boil water. Girl, you go with Brother Jiang to put away your luggage. I will collect it here. If
It would be much easier if you come half a day early, it's not cold yet."
Jiang Meng laughed and spat: "If I hadn't led my troops out of the city to fight you half a day ago, this dog would have been eaten by you long ago. Why are you still waiting for you?" Jiang Meng and Xiang Xiaotian both burst into laughter, and Shangguan Yanran asked
Xiang Xiaotian glanced at him, then followed Jiang Meng into the house to put his luggage, and then chose three guest rooms to pack up.
Chen Mengsheng saw that there was only a big pot on Jiang Meng's stove. He didn't know how long it had been since it had been used. The ash accumulated on the pot lid was not much thinner than the bottom of the pot. Fortunately, there was still water in the water tank, so he took some water to clean it.
Washed and cooked rice in a big pot.
Xiang Xiaotian ran in and grabbed Chen Mengsheng and said, "Brother, come and help." Chen Mengsheng was brought to the dead dog by Xiang Xiaotian, and the dog had been disemboweled and its internal organs removed by Xiang Xiaotian.
"Brother, what's wrong?" Chen Mengsheng asked.
"Oh, this dog's skin and meat are frozen solid. A red fireball will pop out of your hand, right? Defrost it by flicking it on the ground."
"Ah..." Chen Mengsheng opened his mouth in shock, and used Yin Thunder Fire to thaw the dead dog. If Chi Jing knew about it, he would be roasted by the fire. He couldn't help being urged by Xiang Xiaotian, but he had no choice but to use his index finger.
A ball of red flame ignited on the ground. The dead dog softened in a moment. Xiang Xiaotian drew a knife and lightly made a circle on the neck, and a piece of dog skin peeled off...
"Three rolls of fragrant meat will make the gods unsteady. Come and have a try. It would be unreasonable if it doesn't taste good." Xiang Xiaotian put a large plate of thin dog meat into the hot pot, and the bright red meat slices were in the hot pot.
The boiling soup with seasonings was boiled for a few times and it became an attractive delicacy. When paired with rice wine, everyone was full of praise...
After the four of them had finished drinking and eating, Shangguan smiled and said: "I have eaten more meat this year with Brother Xiang than in the past ten years in the Taoist temple combined, haha."
Xiang Xiaotian said: "I'm just a rough guy, I don't like those flowers, grass, etc. like that Manager Pang."
Shangguan Yanran smiled and said: "Senior brother, there is something wrong with that General Manager Pang."
"Junior sister, it is human nature to be driven by wealth and wealth."
Shangguan Yanran shook her head and said, "I mean there's something wrong with the flowers he planted." After saying that, he took out the embroidered handkerchief from his sleeve. There was a purple five-petal flower in the embroidered handkerchief.
Chen Mengsheng looked closely and saw that there were curved hooks at the tips of each petal, and there was a calyx from the pedicle to the end of the stem. He had never seen this kind of flower before, but he thought it was very similar to the flower of the other side in the underworld. He just thought
He reached out to take it but was stopped by Shangguan Yanran: "Senior brother, this flower is poisonous. If there are thorns on the flower, don't hold it with your hands. You must take it with the scarf attached."
Chen Mengsheng's outstretched hand suddenly froze in mid-air when Shangguan Yanran said this, but Xiang Xiaotian took the embroidered handkerchief and asked: "Brother Jiang, have you ever seen this flower in Yangzhou Mansion?" Jiang Meng
Shaking his head and waving his hands.
"This flower is really fragrant." Xiang Xiaotian sniffed it hard a few times, with a half-smiling expression on his face. He pointed at Chen Mengsheng and said with a silly smile: "Brother... why... you have three...
...Head..." Before he finished speaking, Xiang Xiaotian rolled his eyes and fell back...
Chen Mengsheng and Jiang Meng quickly used their eyes and hands to hold Xiang Xiaotian from left and right, preventing Xiang Xiaotian from falling. "Brother, quickly pinch Brother Xiang's three acupoints, Tianchi and Baihui."
Chen Mengsheng stretched out his finger like wind and applied it to all three acupuncture points. Xiang Xiaotian woke up faintly and said in confusion: "Why are you holding me?" The three of them breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that he was awake.
Shangguan Yanran said aggrievedly: "Senior brother, you can't rely on me! I've already told you that this flower is poisonous." Chen Mengsheng shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Xiang Xiaotian shook his head in confusion and asked: "Girl, what is this? Why is it so powerful?" Xiang Xiaotian threw the embroidered handkerchief back as if it were a red-hot coal.
It fell into the hands of Shangguan Yanran.
Shangguan Yanran said with a smile: "This flower is called Datura flower, which comes in five colors: green, white, red and purple. White Datura flowers are common in the Central Plains, and are called the flower of the formless flower in Buddhism. The miracle doctor Hua Tuo used Ma Fei Powder
It’s mainly white mandala, but this purple mandala is different.”
"Junior sister knows this flower so well, no wonder she stopped attentively in the Pang Mansion Garden."
"Haha, senior brother is so complimented. It's just because Yanran was lucky enough to see her father get this flower in the Danding Sect, and she knew it. This purple mandala is produced in the Western Regions. It likes warmth and hates cold. The flower is fragrant and has sunspots in the calyx.
.If placed in a place where people live, the mild fragrance of flowers will cause hallucinations and drowsiness, while severe cases will lose all five senses and become like a walking zombie. If three or five sunspots in the calyx are taken by people, they can be poisoned to death.
Invisibly."
Jiang Meng was speechless and said: "This flower is so overbearing. Is there an antidote to the poisoning?"
Shangguan Yanran said in embarrassment: "If you accidentally eat the sunspots in the calyx, there is no cure. If you are just severely poisoned by the fragrance of flowers, you can use it... you can use the human yellow in the bucket of ten thousand gold to cure it."
Hearing this, Xiang Xiaotian was greatly embarrassed and said: "It's so dangerous, so dangerous. If the poison is severe, then I'm going to eat shit?!"
Shangguan Yanran said: "I heard from my father that purple mandala flowers need to be watered with human blood, so my father put the flowers into the alchemy furnace and burned them."
Xiang Xiaotian thought for a while and said, "Could it be that the gardener discovered something that led to him being harmed by Pang De?"
Jiang Meng slapped his thigh and said, "Brother Xiang is right. Those murders in Yangzhou Mansion must have been committed by this evil man. I will go back and report to Mr. Zhu, and I will send soldiers to capture the evil boy Pang De." After finishing speaking,
Jiang Meng rushed out anxiously.
"Brother Jiang, wait a minute. I checked the case files from the prefect Zhu and found that there is no connection among the more than 40 people. It doesn't seem to be Pound's work..."
Chen Mengsheng stood up and said: "Brother, junior sister, there is no solid evidence for what you say now. Let's wait until we go to Qujiang to check on You Shuibao early tomorrow morning, and then we can reason."
Early the next morning, Jiang Meng drove Chen Mengsheng and the others out of the west gate of Yangzhou Mansion and headed straight for Qujiang. When the city guards saw Jiang Meng leaving the city, no one dared to stop him. It was already past noon when the car arrived at Qujiang, and they found
You Futian's home. Chen Mengsheng knocked lightly on the wooden door. An old woman came to open the door and asked: "Who are you looking for?"
"Auntie, may I ask if You Futian lives here?"
The old woman turned back and shouted into the house: "Old man, someone is looking for you." She opened the door and welcomed Chen Mengsheng and four others.
A stooped old man walked out of the room and said, "What do you want from me?"
Jiang Meng stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "This is Jiang Meng, the general guarding the city of Yangzhou Prefecture. This visit is about the murder of your son a year ago."
The old woman came over to help Old Man You, and Old Man You sighed and said: "My Shui Bao had a bad life, and he was gone just to say no to the gardener in Pang Mansion..." The old woman even had tears in her eyes.
"Let's all go inside and talk. It's freezing outside, please."
Chen Mengsheng and others entered the house. The house was quite complete. Old man You greeted everyone to sit down and asked his wife to cook some vegetables for dinner.
Chen Mengsheng asked: "Old man You, were you the first to discover that You Shuibao died suddenly in the greenhouse? Was there anything unusual about him at that time?"
"In the early autumn of last year, I was the first to discover my son Shui Bao in the flower house. There was no injury or damage on his body, and he was just lost..."
Shangguan Yanran took out the embroidered handkerchief from her sleeve and asked, "Has Uncle You ever seen this flower?"
You Futian took a closer look at the purple mandala flower held in Shangguan Yanran's hand, shook his head and said, "I have never seen the flower in the girl's hand."
Xiang Xiaotian said anxiously: "You have to look carefully. Maybe this flower has a major relationship with the death of my son."
You Futian saw that several people's faces seemed to be sinking, and he did not dare to be careless. He looked at the flowers carefully and still shook his head and said: "The little old man has been working as a gardener in the Pang family since Mr. Pang's generation. He has been working as a gardener in the Pang family for nearly fifty years."
It seems that I have never seen this flower before."
Chen Mengsheng thought for a while and said, "When did Uber leave the Pang Mansion?"
"More than a month after my son's death, Master Pang gave us some money and this house so that we could enjoy our old age here in peace."
While talking, the old woman came over with a wooden tray. On the tray was a plate of scrambled eggs and a bowl of green vegetables, four large bowls of brown rice drink. Although it was a simple meal, it was full of color and flavor, and the yolk of the eggs and the tender green vegetables were very appetizing.
The old woman rubbed her hands and said: "You have come all the way, and I don't have anything good to entertain you, so I would like to ask my guests to be considerate."
You Futian said: "My old woman was Feng Yindi, who was the number one cook in the palace back then. My girl followed her mother in cooking and became a cook at Slender West Lake."
"What? Huafang? Senior brother, I think I understand the connection between the murders of more than 40 people in Yangzhou Prefecture..."