Jixiang County is not a big county, but it is still famous in the prefecture and even in the county, because it is a standard city of the new Han Dynasty, municipal construction, and functional layout that is imitated by the capital Chang'an, which is grand and orderly.

The layout of the capital follows the rules of the left and right society, the front and the back market, that is, the ancestral temple is on the east, the country is on the west, the front of the city is on the imperial palace, and the back is on the market.

Jixiang County has similar layout.

It runs through the entire city with two main roads from east to west, south to north, connecting the four major city gates, and then there is a wide road inside the county town. This road connects from beginning to end, dividing the inner city and the outer city.

The county government is in the middle of the inner city, Yicui Tower, Dingsheng Tower, etc. are also here. To the east is the temple, to the west is the school society, to the south is the residential area of ​​officials and wealthy people, and to the north is the market and shops.

For example, civilian residences and various workshops are distributed in the outer ring.

The serial death case of scholar's secret room is the top priority of all cases in the county, so Dou Dachun personally took them to check the scene.

They left the government office and walked north, and Xu Da asked, "Shouldn't you go west?"

Dou Dachun explained: "The residents in the west are all famous masters. These four scholars have not yet achieved fame. Three of them live in the North City and one of them lives in the Outer City. Let's go to the North City first to take a look."

The entire North City is the most lively place in the county town. Every street has shops and every street has stalls.

There were some people watching juggling on one of the streets. When they arrived, a girl was performing a handstand and a little old man performed bone shrinkage.

This scene attracted Xu Da. He stared at the girl with deep eyes and said, "Lao Qi, I have an extraordinary posture. Oh no, I have an extraordinary idea."

Dou Dachun squeezed to him and whispered: "Lily unlocks the lock? Two-headed snake?"

Xu Da raised his respect: "Master Dou is an expert."

As soon as the two spoke, they knew that they were old clients.

Wang Qilin's face darkened, and he was arrogant without anger: "What trouble is it?"

Xu Da explained: "I just said that I was talking nonsense. What I want to say is, will anyone who knows acrobatics use the bone shrinkage skills to enter the room? He opened a small window. I think Mr. Dou didn't check the opening and closing of the small window, right?"

Wang Qilin said: "Go to see the scene first, I won't say anything else. The insignificant guess will only affect our judgment of the truth."

There are also several stalls scattered on the street, including old Taoist priests telling fortunes, men in Mai clothes to see photos, and ancestral miraculous doctors to treat diseases.

There were many people surrounding these stalls. Dou Dachun pointed to an old Taoist priest with long beards and said, "Sir, let's go over there."

There was a white cloth on the ground in front of the old Taoist stall, with a square array of surnames on it, and all the surnames of a hundred families were considered to be considered.

There are two banners beside him, each with two columns of characters. The first one says: Don’t open your mouth and you will know your noble surname. The other says: Calculate the year and the disasters and the month, and see the wealth and poverty.

Seeing this, Xie Hata sneered disdainfully: "Just a street liar, Lord Dou believes this?"

Dou Dachun pointed to a middle-aged man watching again and said, "No, do you still remember the first scholar Zhao Hang who died? That's his father."

At this time, the old Taoist priest was counting a surname for a man. He gave him about twenty small wooden signs, each with more than twenty surnames on it. Then he said: "Young man found the divine card where his surname is located, and then took it to the cloth to find the area where your surname is located, and place the divine card on it."

The man casually drew out a wooden sign, searched on the cloth and covered it on a square of surnames.

The old Taoist priest stared at his face and began to pinch his fingers, and soon he smiled slightly.

Seeing this man, the person next to him asked, "Master, have you figured out what my brother Peng's surname is?"

The onlookers burst into laughter, and the man's guy was confused: "Why are you laughing at?"

The old Taoist priest smiled and said, "They are laughing at you for being deceived by your friend. Do you, your friend, tell you that your surname is Peng? Yes, he is actually Nie!"

The man looked at each other with his friend, and his face was shocked: "It's indeed a master."

Someone asked, "That man, your true surname is Nie?"

The man nodded.

Some people doubted: "It's not a double act, right? Or do you know him if you are an old Taoist priest?"

The waiter from the rice shop on the street said: "Brother Nie is a dealer from the South Country. He is an old acquaintance with my shopkeeper. He has no acquaintances in this city, and he will not sing a double act with a Taoist priest You Fang."

The man surnamed Nie ignored others' doubts, so he took out a silver slag and said, "Master, please calculate your descendants for me."

The old Taoist priest smiled and said, "Why do you need to count this? You actually want to ask me for children, right?"

The man surnamed Nie was excited and shouted, "The Taoist priest is really a god, please help me give birth to a son."

Xu was surprised: "Oh, have you really met a master?"

Xie Hata sneered, waved his hand and called him over and whispered a few times.

After hearing this, Xu Da suddenly realized, then opened the group and squeezed into front with their arms and said, "If you want to find someone to give birth to a son, then it would be more reliable to find me than to find this old man, but is your wife young and beautiful?"

The man surnamed Nie was furious when he heard this. He turned around and stood up with his fist. Seeing Xu Da's outfit clearly, he let go of his fist and turned to sit down.

Xu Da picked up a wooden sign from the ground and picked it up, patted it on the square of surnames and said, "Old man, you can calculate my surname."

The old Taoist priest saw him wearing black clothes with cloud patterns and his cheeks jumped. Then he looked at it and said, "Is the eldest son the king?"

Xu Da sneered and picked up another sign and put it on another square of surnames.

Seeing that the old Taoist understood, he smiled bitterly and bowed and said, "Sir, please spare me. I am old and have no children. I just want this stall to have a meal."

Xie Hama scolded: "You dare to eat the food you have made by cheating? This is the food that is affected by cause and effect, aren't you afraid of choking to death?"

The old Taoist priest sighed: "It is better to choke to death than to starve to death."

The man surnamed Nie thought they were bullying others with their power, so he said angrily: "Are you not afraid of bullying an old man to harm the reputation of the Tingtianjian?"

Xu Da sneered: "It's so damn that he can't persuade the ghost who wants to die! I'm saving your money bag, you don't know the good people's hearts!"

He said to the man's friend: "Please choose a brand and put it down."

After choosing a friend of the man surnamed Nie, Xu Da looked at him and said, "Your surname is Ding?"

The two big men looked at each other and were confused.

Xu Dadao: "A group of idiots have not figured it out yet? There are twenty characters in the wooden sign and surname area, but only one can overlap. The wooden sign you selected contains your surname, and the area you put in also contains your surname. As long as people calculate what the character is, they will know what your surname is?"

"So that's it." The onlookers suddenly realized.

The man surnamed Nie frowned and asked his friend: "Do you understand?"

His friend also frowned, but quickly said, "Of course I understand, don't you understand?"

The man surnamed Nie smiled and said, "Haha, I understand too."

Wang Qilin asked the waiter of the rice shop, "Does this businessman from the South always lose money when doing business?"

The waiter said: "How do you know?"

Wang Qilin said: "I can tell fortunes too."

The old Taoist priest wanted to ease the relationship with them, so he smiled and said, "Can you do it for me?"

Wang Qilin hated the liar very much, so he said coldly: "I have to count that there is still a disaster after you die, and you may not be able to escape this disaster."

When the old Taoist priest heard this tone, he quickly rolled up his white cloth and packed his things and ran away. Xu Da looked at a stall next to him.
Chapter completed!