One Hundred and Forty Two                                                           �

During the Xianping period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Dong, the governor of Yicheng County, Xiangyang, Southwest Jing Road, was thirsty. He had a thin face, sword eyebrows, harsh eyes, and strong body. He was very skilled in martial arts, both wise and brave, and was very agile. He was good at solving strange cases. He was famous for his prefectures and counties. He was known as a god-like arrester. If he encountered difficult and difficult cases, he would ask him to help him. A powerful person in the county. One day in the autumn of that year, Liu Magistrate of Nanzhang sent a letter saying that he had frequent flower collection cases in the county town, and several young beauties had been killed. The case was strange and could not be solved. His constables were powerless and wanted Li Dong to help him.

The magistrate immediately ordered Li Dong to go to the Nanzhang County Office to help him. He received the order and placed the order on the table. His wife Zhao Qian immediately explained it to him and wanted to go with her husband, so she put it in clothes and prepared her to go. Li Dong put all his energy on solving the case. He ignored the details of food and clothing, and had a poor life. Therefore, when he was traveling far away to solve the case, his wife followed him to serve him. Zhao Qian was the same age as her husband, with a pretty face, her eyes were covered with flowers, her skin was like white lotus roots, and she was a graceful figure. She was a beautiful woman.

After packing up, the couple rode together, rode a horse and whipped it, and rushed to Nanzhang. The two places were more than a hundred miles apart. At night, the gate of the east city was closed. There was an official inn in the gate of the gate. They stayed at the door of the gate of the gate. The next morning, the couple visited Liu County County. Liu County immediately summoned Cao Yu to talk to him. Although Cao Yu was not confused, his beard was gray and his spirit was not refreshed. His eyes narrowed, and his voice trembled. When they met, they politely said, "I have heard that Li Du's head captured Daming for a long time. Now I see him, I like to be able to learn about it. It is a blessing for my foolish brother." Li Dong apologized and said, "I am not in line with the real name. I am ashamed. I am willing to discuss with my good brother and encourage him. Please tell me the case in detail, so I can learn it all." Cao Yu said:

In the past few months, young beauties have often disappeared in Nanzhang County. Flower-picking thieves robbed the woman from the house at night. When they got up in the morning, the master did not see his daughter. He searched for him for no results. He told him that the government was helpless. He did not see anyone alive or corpses when he died. He had been exposed to many consecutive attacks. Two days ago, the rich family in the city, and the rich family in the city, and the rich lotus flowers of the people who were rich in the city were also robbed. They did not know where to go. The government investigated it closely, and there was no clue. The people in the city were panicked. Therefore, the young woman did not dare to go out at night, and the door was closed, and they all slept with her mother.

When Zhao Qian heard this, she was frightened and changed her temper. Cao Yu saw it and smiled and said, "Your brother and sister don't have to panic. If you have your husband arrested you, why can't you solve the case? It's easy to solve this case." Li Dong knew it with jealousy and sarcastic expression. His face was solemn, and bowed and said, "I want to read this case file, and the clues to solve the case may be able to understand it." Cao Yu said that the file file was kept in the backyard warehouse, so he could go to read it together.

When he arrived at the backyard, he passed the back garden. Li Dong saw that the flowers were blooming in the yard, densely packed with flowers, flat egg-shaped scaly stems and leaves, and the bell or funnel-shaped flowers were colorful and filled with fragrance, refreshing the heart. Li Dong did not recognize this flower, so he asked him, and Liu Magistrate said, "This flower is called tulips. During the Zhenguan period of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, the country presented it to the country. Because the flowers were like lotus, the people in the country called it a drought lotus. I loved it very much and planted it in the backyard to appreciate it." Zhao Qian heard the name of the flower and compared it with the name of the murdered Miss Shui family. It was a coincidence that it was a coincidence.

Li Dong took the file and returned to the post station. His wife was busy cleaning the room. He showed the file and read it carefully. Seeing that the content was as described by Cao Yu, he had no clue. At this time, a yamen runner came with a basket of drought lotus flowers and said that Cao Du sent it to his wife to appreciate it. Li Dong was close to him and smelled it. The sound was very fragrant. So he took a branch into his arms, hurried out of the post house, and rode a horse and galloped away.

Where did Li Dong go? He entered the city and went to the victim's Shui Mansion alone to investigate. The Shui Mansion was located in the east of the city. When he saw the Shui Mansion, he showed a letter to express his intention. He entered the Shui Mansion and went to the Shui Lotus Boudoir to look at it. He looked at it carefully and found no abnormalities. He asked the Shui Man that there was a sound that could be heard on the night of the incident. The Shui Man that the Shui Man that he shook his head, but he said that there was no sound. At dawn, he only smelled the faint fragrance of flowers in the boudoir. He took out a dry lotus from his arms and asked the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man that the Shui Man

When Li Dong returned and slept at night, he racked his brains to think: This case was strange, and there was no scene of the crime. All the victims died and were not seen. The flower-picking thief rebelled and had high detection methods. How can I investigate it? It was really difficult. He tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. Suddenly, a woman in white was floating into the room. Li Dong asked who was surprised? The woman said that I was the golden lotus flower in the water palace. Li Dong was shocked and saw a ghost. He asked, "You have died, where is the corpse? Who is harming him?" The woman replied, "On the night when I was injured, I suddenly heard the strange fragrance and fell into a coma. My corpse was buried under an old locust tree outside the east gate. The murderer didn't know who was." After saying that, the woman passed away without a trace. Li Dong shouted: "I dig it immediately!"

Zhao Qian woke up his husband, and Li Dong opened his eyes. It turned out to be a dream! When it was dawn, after breakfast, Li Dong held an iron shovel, rode a horse and took his wife, and went to the big locust tree outside the east gate. He saw a new soil, and he swung a shovel to dig it. After several shovels, he saw a female corpse. When he was looking down, he suddenly heard the sound of the bow string behind him. He knew that it was not good. He looked back quickly and saw an arrow behind him. He quickly avoided it. He reached out and grabbed the arrow shaft, and looked at the direction of the arrow. He saw a man jumping on a horse and whipped it away. It was dangerous! It is easy to avoid hidden arrows and could not prevent it. Li Dong was almost plotted by a villain! Zhao Qian was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, his husband was agitated and survived. Li Dong looked at the words cast by the arrow, and suddenly he drew the turret. He abandoned the shovel and called the passerby to guard the passerby. He ordered his wife and passers-by to guard the county government, and reported to Liu Magistrate.

When Liu Magistrate Liu heard this, he was surprised and ordered the coroner and several yamen runners to the scene. After the coroner's autopsy was examined, it was confirmed that the female corpse had only been dead for three days, and it was undoubtedly the water lotus flower. The female corpse had no scars and showed no signs of resistance when it was defiled. She was defiled and buried alive, as if she was in a coma and was defiled. The water officer got the news and looked at it. Seeing her daughter tragically died in the wilderness, she cried and cursed the flower-picking thief, it was time to kill her!

When he returned to the yamen, Liu Magistrate asked Li Dong: "Head of Li Du, why do you know where the corpse of the water lotus flowers are buried?" Li Dong said perfunctorily: "I looked around this morning. I occasionally saw new soil swelling under the tree, so I dug it with a shovel, and it was a clever catch." Liu Magistrate asked again: "Who can the murderer know?" Li Dong replied: "I haven't found out, but the murderer still doesn't know. However, the flower cases in Guizhou County are stacked, and there is a suspicion in the hearts of the adults?" Liu Magistrate said: "There is a historian in the west of the city, a wealthy mansion, and a playboy Shi Xing. He is idle in daily life and is a regular visitor to brothels. The official suspected what he did, but there is no evidence, so he had to let him be free and helpless." Li Dong nodded his head, but he did not mention the secret arrows, for fear that the magistrate would investigate, and the thief of the flower picking escaped, and the case would be even more difficult to solve.

Li Dong bid farewell to the magistrate and called his wife back. When he saw Zhao Qian coming out of the backyard, he had a dry lotus flower planted in his head and a dry lotus wreath on his neck, he smiled and bloomed. Cao Yu followed him and explained, "My wife loves dry lotus flowers and becomes a stupor. I ordered people to pick and woven rings to give it to him. Li Dutou, I heard that the case was in progress, and wanted to hold a banquet to congratulate him. Please come to my office tomorrow night to congratulate him." Li Dong bowed and thanked, "Thank you for your intention, I will go to the banquet as you wish tomorrow night, thank you!"

The couple returned to the inn. After dinner, Li Dong asked Zhao Qian to find out the case tonight and pay attention to the door. At night, Li Dong changed his night clothes, carried a single knife, performed night walks, flew over the city wall, and went to the Shi Mansion, jumped into the back flower courtyard, and the fragrance of flowers came to his face. Under the moonlight, he looked at it carefully and saw that the yard was full of drought lotus, which was compared with the county government backyard, and he knew what he used. He walked around the quiet backyard and came to the front yard. He jumped up to the main room, looked under the eaves, and saw that there were two people drinking tea in the living room.

When he saw the two of them carefully, he was shocked. He saw that the person who was sitting at the seat was Cao Yu. The person who sat down was wearing gorgeous clothes, wearing a prince's crown, with a fair face and a pink eyebrow. Although Li Dong didn't know him, he knew that this person must be Shi Xing. The two of them talked and talked in an opportunistic manner. Li Dong held his breath and listened in detail. He heard Cao Yu say, "I see his wife's beauty..., I will have a banquet tomorrow night..." He also heard Shi Xingkang say, "Brother's trick..." After hearing this, Li Dong suddenly broke out in cold sweat. It was a pity to visit Shi's mansion tonight. If not, my life would be over!

When Li Dong was about to return, he heard Cao Yu say, "My brother, after I have used the medicine, I need to take several more pills to use. The antidote is very smelly and difficult to eat. I always want to vomit, but in order to get the beauty, I have to eat it." Shi Xing stood up and said, "I will take it immediately, please wait." Then he went out of the hall, went to the west wing of the backyard, took out the key from the crack of the stairs, opened the door and lit the lights, opened the cabinet to get the medicine, turned off the lights, turned back and left the house, locked the door, and placed the key in the crack of the stairs. Li Dong followed him, watched Shi Xing's moves, and waited for him to return, Li Dong repeated his movements and took all the remaining antidotes.

In the middle of the night, Li Dong returned, and his wife asked where to investigate and what he had gained. However, he spoke perfunctorily without revealing any of it. He went to bed and fell asleep soundly, and woke up until the sun was noon.

In the evening, Li Dong wanted to go to the banquet as an appointment, but saw his wife wearing a dry lotus wreath on her neck, dressed up and waving, and wanted to go with her. Li Dong said he was slow and wanted to drink first. His wife advised her to come to the banquet, why not wait for him? Li Dong felt that his wife was negligent and suddenly changed color. He was furious and pulled off his wife's wreath on the ground, slammed her feet and slashed her feet. Zhao Qian saw it, and cried out in anger, and went back to the bedroom to cover her face and cried. Li Dong left his wife and went to Cao Yu's office to go to the banquet alone.

When he arrived at Cao Yu's office, the room was brightly lit. Seeing that the banquet was ready. Li Dong said politely and calmly, Cao Yu and several of his subordinates took their seats toast. After three rounds of wine, Li Dong and the yamen runners were drunk and unconscious. Li Dong lay under the table. Cao Yu sneered and carried Li Dong to the open space behind the office. He was used to the ground. Li Dong seemed to wake up and stretched his waist to rise. Cao Yu narrowed his eyes and held a machete and smiled grinningly, "I put drugs in the wine. You have been poisoned and can only lie down and wait for death. A moment later, your wife is coming. Your wife is beautiful. I have already thought about it. Tonight I will take it to your face and send it to Huangquan to the road. I will arrest you. Before you die, I will let you describe it." Then he gave the flower picking case in Nanzhang auspiciously:

In the past few months, Shi Xing obtained a secret recipe from the merchants of the Jiapi Kingdom, which extracted the liquid of the roots of the drought lotus, mixed with sweat medicine, and refined it into a lax medicine. When the sprayed person sprayed, the person who was sprayed fainted immediately, was paralyzed and unconscious, and let him do evil and did not wake up. Shi Xing and Cao Yu were accomplices of the brothel, and they hit it off. They used this lavish medicine to collect flowers many times. First, Shi Xing entered the beautiful girl's boudoir at night, sprayed the lavish medicine through the crack of the window, and they ate the antidote in advance, and the poison was not invaded. When they entered the boudoir, they carried the paralyzed girl to a remote place outside the city, and all the two of them were burying alive and destroyed the traces without knowing the ghost.

After hearing this, Li Dong was not afraid at all and smiled calmly and said, "Well, I am now poisoned and paralyzed. Why do you need to rush to kill him? You might as well listen carefully. How can I see through your evil deeds? Yesterday morning, when I was digging the corpse of the water lady, I was almost hit by your cold arrows. Why do you know what you did? The arrowheads are cast with the words "official system"? I decided that there were no two people to you. The coroner made the corpse of the water lady, saying that when he was humiliated, it seemed like a coma and there was no sign of resistance.

, without scars, and was buried alive. I concluded that his drug was poisoned. I also heard the words of Shui Master. On that day, there was nothing unusual in the scene of his boudoir, and only smelled the fragrance of drought lotus. I concluded that the drug was made of drought lotus. You and Shi Xing were blinded by Liu County and the yamen runners, lost all their conscience and ruined the daughters of good families. Last night, I visited Shi Xing's house at night. Not only did I see a large area of ​​drought lotus planting in the garden behind it, but I also heard the words you talked to Shi Xing..."

When Cao Yu heard this, he was shocked and shouted, "You are about to die, Shang Zhenzhen has something to say, come and take your life!" He raised his sword and wanted to stop killing. However, Li Dong quickly flashed, jumped, and kicked it. He hit Cao Yu's wrist. The machete was kicked away. Li Dong turned over, caught the machete, and used a move to sweep the dry roots. Cao Yu was caught off guard, and his feet were cut off, screaming in pain, and he fell to the ground and rolled. Originally, Li Dong took the plan, had already taken the antidote, pretending to be poisoned and paralyzed, and Cao Yu was shot!

At this time, Shi Xing carried Zhao Qian to the scene. Under the hazy moonlight, he said proudly: "Brother Cao, I have already succeeded. Li Dong's wife is poisoned and unconscious. Please enjoy the soul first..." When he approached, he heard Cao Yu rolling to the ground and howled, and was stunned. He abandoned Zhao Qian and wanted to support Cao Yu. When someone heard someone behind him shouted, "Shi Xinghua thief, go with Cao Yu!" He waved his machete, and Shi Xing's feet were also cut off. The two thieves hissed and howled in a pool of blood.

Li Dong used the antidote, and Zhao Qian and the yamen runners gradually woke up. He then beat the drums and Liu Magistrate went to the hall in the middle of the night. He was about to capture the thief of the two flowers and tell him.

In the early morning, Zhao Qian woke up and saw that he was riding on a fast horse. The husband hugged him tightly. He suddenly remembered the incident that made his husband angry last night. He said in a low voice, "You went there alone without caring about my danger. I am almost lost my virginity." Li Dong said, "I have already predicted it, you must be at peace. Besides, it is difficult to capture the pervert if you don't give up your wife." Zhao Qian heard it and beat his husband's chest with a shy look. Li Dong hugged his wife tightly. After a long time, Zhao Qian asked his husband where he was going. Li Dong told him that the flower case had been solved and he was now returning to Yicheng to return.
Chapter completed!