After investigating the crime scene, they found the smell that was not fragrant but much stronger than the smell left on the bodies of the Lu family. However, Li Jie did not think of what caused it for a moment. The murderer was very cautious and should
It has undergone special processing.
Before leaving, Li Jie and his party happened to bump into Feng Ling and the others, and they nodded to each other without much communication. After all, they only knew each other once.
Feng Ling was a little more well-behaved this time and did not approach Li Jie to start a relationship as soon as they met. This time, she disguised herself and approached Li Jie mainly to reveal the news about Du Leng, the blood element hand, to Li Jie and his party.
Blood elemental master Du Leng and Zhitian Dharma King Tang Xu are part of the same camp within the Demon Sect. The Demon Sect is not a monolithic entity, and neither side would mind stumbling upon the other if given the opportunity.
Originally, Feng Ling had a 100% chance of winning the election for the Demon Sect Saint, but due to the interference of Dharma King Zhitian, Feng Ling had to put in a lot of effort.
Feng Ling came to Qingyuan County this time for two purposes. One was to seek opportunities to get close to Li Jie, and the other was to take revenge on the family of Dharma King Zhitian.
It wasn't until he returned to the inn that Mr. Wuhen asked, "How about ignoring it? Have you discovered anything new?"
Li Jie was thinking about what the peculiar smell was made of. He was distracted for a moment and did not hear what Mr. Wuhen said. It was not until Mr. Wuhen pushed his arm that he came back to his senses and smiled apologetically.
"Sorry, I was just thinking about something and didn't pay attention."
Mr. Wuhen looked surprised: "Oh? But it's related to the case?"
Li Jie nodded: "Yes, every corpse in the Yuan Mansion has a strange smell. The Lu family also had this smell before. It seems to be fragrant but not fragrant. It feels familiar, but I can't remember what it is.
, maybe this is a breakthrough."
Mr. Wuhen looked thoughtful when he heard this. He had been very clean since he was a child and had a slight mysophobia. He didn't pay much attention to it during the autopsy at the Yamen. He only thought that the smell left at the crime scene was some kind of incense. Li Jie
After the inspection at the Yamen, I didn't tell anyone because I wasn't sure.
The morning stars were sparse and the east was white. It had been ten days since the murder of Yuan Mansion. During this period, the murderer seemed to have suddenly disappeared. Since then, there has been no similar case. The county magistrate of Qingyuan County felt sad.
In one breath, major cases occurred one after another in Qingyuan County in just ten days, leaving him overwhelmed. To him, this was simply an unforeseen disaster.
The imperial court conducts evaluations every three years. As a local official, public security issues are also included in the evaluation. Although there were some petty thefts in the past two years, and even some big thieves crossing the border to steal, there were no murder cases like this.
"Ignore it, do you want to go for a walk outside the city? The murderer has probably left here. I have been tense for a while. I think everyone is tired. The weather is nice today. It's time to go out and relax."
In order to catch the murderer as soon as possible, Li Jie and others patrolled Qingyuan County in pairs over the past few nights. Unexpectedly, the murderer seemed to be able to predict the situation beforehand, and he did not commit another crime during this period.
Although the innate warriors are more energetic than ordinary people, they are still flesh and blood after all, and the patrol in the past half month has almost reached the limit of everyone.
Li Jie also knew that it was not an option to always wait and see. The lack of trace of the murderer made Li Jie a little annoyed. It happened to be a rare good weather today, and Mr. Wuhen's proposal came at the right time.
"Okay, everyone is tired during this period. Being tense all the time is not an option. It's good to take a break."
Qingxuan preferred silence to movement and did not go out with the three of them, but chose to meditate in the inn.
The most famous scenic spot near Qingyuan County is Banyue Mountain. There is a Qianyuan Temple on the mountain that is full of incense. Even in late autumn when everything is withered, there is still an endless stream of tourists going up the mountain.
When Li Jie was in the main world, he liked to travel to famous mountains and rivers. Whenever his inspiration ran out, he would pick up his luggage and go on a journey. The trees on Banyue Mountain were not evergreen trees such as pines and cypresses. At this time, their leaves were already withered and yellow.
, a gust of wind blows by, and the rustling of the branches will surely bring up pieces of withered yellow leaves.
However, autumn also has its beauty. The autumn wind blows and white clouds fly, and the grass and trees fall yellow as the wild geese return south. A fallen leaf tells the world that it is autumn. The farmers you meet along the way are all smiling. You can tell at a glance that the weather will be good this year and the weather will be good again.
It’s a harvest time of the year.
"Give it! Give it!"
Two men dressed as hunters carried a wounded man and sprinted, shouting.
"ah!"
"Why are you so reckless?"
The ankles of the man being carried were bloody and bruised. He probably stepped on the animal trap accidentally. Some of the women couldn't help screaming when they saw this scene, while others scolded the other man for rushing into them.
Pu Xing sighed and said, "Oh, this man is finished for the rest of his life. He has injured his bones and muscles. I am afraid he will have to use a cane for the rest of his life."
The development of traditional Chinese medicine in this world is somewhat abnormal. Most doctors focus on how to treat warriors, and are better at treating internal injuries. Similar to the external injuries suffered by Orion, there are basically no particularly effective treatments.
Even if Orion was sent to the city's traditional Chinese medicine clinic, the most the doctor could do was apply some gold sore medicine on him and bandage it. No one has studied sutures yet.
Firstly, it is a visually cruel treatment method to sew stitches directly on the human body. Secondly, there are no anesthetics like Mafeishan.
Ma boils away!
Like a bolt of lightning across the night sky, Li Jie suddenly remembered what the peculiar smell was made of.
The main flavor in Ma Fei Powder is datura flower. The main chemical components in Datura are scopolamine, hyoscyamine, atropine, etc. In ancient times, most of them were used to make Mongolian sweat medicine. It is said that Hua Tuo used Datura datura in Ma Fei Powder.
Luo as the main medicine.
In order to experience the best medical skills in the world, Li Jie often went to the royal library to read medical books when he was in the palace. The best of us, the Ming world, and the hidden guardian, although the three worlds Li Jie experienced are the same as the main world.
Inextricably linked, but the background of each world is different, and some concepts have both overlap and differences.
For example, the medical skills in the Ming Dynasty pay more attention to universality. There are not many doctors who can treat martial arts people. Most of those famous doctors treat ordinary people. The world's first world has taken a different path. Anyone who can treat people in the city
Those who run medical clinics here basically have a few tools for treating internal injuries.
Li Jie has never seen records of datura flowers in the royal family's collection of books. The medicine used to make ecstasy in this world is a drug called psychedelic grass. The royal family's collection of books is all-encompassing and can be said to be the best collection of books in the world. Li Jie
Jie originally thought that there were no mandala flowers in this world, so he never thought about it.
The original smell of Datura flowers was not like that left at the scene. The murderer must have concealed it when making the medicine. The problem that had been bothering him for more than half a month was finally solved today. Li Jie couldn't help laughing and patted Pu Xing on the shoulder.
Open your mouth and say.
"Haha! Pu Xing, well done!"
Pu Xing was stunned, with a confused look on his face. He didn't know why His Highness said such a sentence out of nowhere.
Mr. Wuhen seemed to have thought of something. The most worrying thing about his friend recently was the source of that strange fragrance. The only thing that could make him so happy was to decipher the mystery. He asked uncertainly.
"Ignore, are you thinking of the joints of this case?"
Li Jie laughed: "Anyone who knows me has no trace!"
"Exactly, I finally know what the drug used by the murderer is made of!"
Li Jie then explained the properties and functions of Datura flowers to the two of them. Datura flowers are native to India. Li Jie initially thought that for some reason no one in the world had brought them back.
Middle Earth.
If the Demonic Cult discovered the efficacy of the Datura flower and transplanted it, it would make sense that Datura flower is not recorded in medical books, because the Demonic Cult is not a local force, but comes from outside the region.
Datura flowers like to grow in shrubs with sufficient sunlight, on grasslands, beside houses, or even on roadsides or beside rivers. It can be said that they are very easy to grow, do not have strict cultivation requirements, and have strong drought resistance.
If they don't know about it in advance, most people will only regard it as a kind of flower and plant, and will not think of it as a medicinal material at all. It is also secretive enough to cultivate it.
There were successive murders in Qingyuan County, and a huge amount of intoxicating drugs must have been consumed. It is very likely that there are a large number of Datura flowers cultivated near Qingyuan County.
The appearance of the datura flower is relatively easy to recognize. Now that the secret has been cracked, you only need to follow the map to find the place where the datura flower is cultivated.
If, as Li Jie expected, the world does not know the efficacy of datura flowers at all, and most people will regard it as some kind of flower, then the Demon Cult may not take too many precautions, as long as the investigation process is a little more secretive.
Even if the murderer leaves by then, he will be able to follow the clues and find the secret stronghold of the Demon Cult. There will definitely be people left behind there. Even if they are not insiders, it doesn't matter. As long as they wait there, it is better than searching for traces of the Demon Cult all over the world.
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After hearing Li Jie's description, Mr. Wuhen was surprised and said: "Is there such a thing? I have never heard of this kind of medicine. I wonder where Brother Zhu saw it?"
Li Jie laughed, and naturally made the first guess, saying that he saw it in Ouchi's secret library. You can't say that I knew it from another world. Mr. Wuhen couldn't go to Ouchi to verify it anyway.
Not everyone can enter the royal library. Although there are no restrictions on princes like Li Jie, outsiders who want to enter are only allowed to enter unless they have made a significant contribution to the imperial court, and there is also a time limit.
In the next few days, the four of them, Li Jie, were each responsible for searching for one area in the four directions, southeast, northwest, and after several days of searching, they finally found a manor in the west of Qingyuan County, where a large number of datura flowers were planted.
To the west, Mr. Wuhen is responsible for investigating. There are signs that Datura flowers in the manor have been picked in large quantities recently.
Mr. Wuhen then secretly sneaked into the county government office to check the land deed, and found that the registrant of the property was a wealthy businessman named Sun Zhengming from the city. His son had won the election some time ago.
Since then, the Sun family has officially entered Li Jie's field of vision. The Sun family moved to Qingyuan County only thirty years ago. They mainly engage in the cloth and grain business and are one of the first-class wealthy households in Qingyuan County.
Some time ago, Sun Zhengming's eldest son, Sun Bin, had just won the imperial examination. If Sun Bin can be named on the examination list in two years' time, no surprise, another wealthy family will be added to Qingyuan County in a hundred years.
Li Jie then started a secret investigation into the Sun family. As expected, he found an anomaly. There was actually an innate master hidden in the Sun family. This was inconsistent with the strength that the Sun family showed to the outside world.
The Sun family's business is very large, so the caravan traveling from south to north naturally needs guards. On the surface, the leader of the guard is an acquired master of horizontal training, but in fact, he is hidden in a courtyard deep in the Sun family.
An innate master.
Innate masters in the world are like crucian carp crossing the river. There is no need to hide them. It is actually difficult for rich families like the Sun family to recruit innate masters.
If an innate master wants to go further, he must rely more on enlightenment. There is no bottleneck from the early stage of innate to the innate perfection. People with different talents are at most the difference in speed. The real difficulty is to break through the master.
This step cannot be broken through with money alone. Most of the people who can reach the innate realm are people with inheritance. How can they be bought with money? If nothing else, martial arts secrets cannot be bought with money alone.
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Even though in the original work, Thirteen Thousand Wealth was as great as the enemy's, it was because of his righteousness and charity. Countless people in the world have received his favors. The people under him chose to follow him more because of the favors, rather than being hired to obtain money.
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In the original work, the Four Ghosts of Xiangxi can be called masters among his subordinates of Wan San Qian in terms of martial arts. However, the original work does not explain the reason why the Four Ghosts of Xiangxi serve as his guards.
But one thing is certain, the Four Ghosts of Xiangxi will most likely not work for money. For master-level warriors, money is not attractive to them, because as long as they want it, countless people will rush to offer it to them.
With money, there is absolutely no need to serve as a personal guard for Wan Sanqian.
Therefore, most of the bodyguards of wealthy businessmen are acquired warriors. If any company recruits innate masters, it will definitely have to brag about it. For example, in the future, the bodyguards recruited by so-and-so are military kings. It would be extremely embarrassing to tell them.
A matter of honor.
After several days of observation, no obvious abnormalities were found in the Sun Mansion, and he finally caught the demon sect's tail. Li Jie would not easily take action against the people in the house before he found out the situation. It was easy to do it rashly.
To alert the snake.
The Demonic Cult has a strict organizational structure. If someone goes missing, it will definitely alert the other party. Li Jie is still thinking of fishing for a big fish in the long run.
Feng Ling has been secretly monitoring Li Jie and his party. In order to avoid being exposed, he followed them far away from each other. Previously, Li Jie and the four of them suddenly separated and seemed to be looking for something. This aroused Feng Ling's suspicion.
Until she noticed that Li Jie and his entourage turned their attention to the Sun family, Feng Ling knew that the Sun family had been exposed, but she had not yet guessed the reason for the exposure.
In order to prevent being discovered by the other party, Feng Ling never dared to follow too closely. In addition, there were only two of them. Among the four, Li Jie and Mr. Wuhen had the highest martial arts skills. Feng Ling chose to follow Pu Xing, Qing Xuan, and Mr. Wuhen found out
She didn't know anything about Sunfu Villa.
'Since the other party has found out about the Sun Mansion, it saves me the trouble of having to do anything else.'