Lieutenant's Mansion of the Northern Army, study room.
Qu Jun brought back a woman with a pale face and a mole on the left side of her face.
Yue Rao's eyes also fell on the woman's face and the hair on the back of her head first. A look of surprise flashed across his face, and his reaction was similar to Qu Jun's.
The woman was calm at first, but under Huo Qubing's gaze, she slowly began to tremble as if she had been tortured, with frightened eyes.
Huo Qubing thought to himself that my spiritual power can indeed make the other party fearful and difficult to resist.
"Shizhong Huo, is she the suspect who killed Lieutenant Liu?" Qu Jun asked respectfully.
Huo Qubing's inscrutability has won the respect of this expert detective under Ting Wei.
"She is just an accomplice."
Huo Qubing: "This study itself is a well-designed trap. Liu Huai came back from an outing and was already tricked when he entered here."
"Trap?"
"Have you ever smelled a very faint aroma in the room?"
Qu Jun and Yue Rao beside him said at the same time: "After I came over, I did not ignore the detection of the smell. The room was filled with the smell of Tianxiang, which is made from grass and trees. After investigation, the problem is not here."<
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Most of the noble families in Chang'an burned incense in their homes. This was a habit that existed in the clans of the former Qin Dynasty and was quite luxurious.
"The fragrance you found is a mixture of spices such as cinnamon, water chestnut, and cinnamon. It is not the smell I mentioned."
Huo Qubing said: "The smell you mentioned is just to cover up another smell."
He looked at the woman with distracted eyes not far away: "She was the one who burned incense in the room to cover up the smell. The pottery pot was a murder weapon used to store harmful things, but it was not in her hands. It was the real murderer.
I wanted to push her out, but she had just discovered that the pot was in her room not long ago, and was so horrified that she hid it under the bed."
"How do you know?"
The woman lost her voice and spoke, her face frightened and frightened, as pale as a dead person.
Qu Jun, Yue Rao and others couldn't help but look at each other. Looking at this woman's reaction, they knew that what Huo Qubing said - perfect!
"Then Lieutenant Liu..."
"Liu Huai was introduced in advance with a scent that was very close to the incense burning in the room. Someone close to him placed it on him. When he entered the room, the incense blended with the scent on his body, forming another
This smell spread out invisibly, eventually causing him to be plotted and lead to his death!"
Qu Jun and Yue Rao secretly thought that dying from the smell would indeed make the whole body uninjured, as if they had died in sleep.
"So the smell was poisonous and killed Officer Liu?" Qu Jun asked.
"No, the smell only induced him to fall into a comatose state. The real cause of his death was... damage to his soul.
The pottery jar contained some kind of specially bred insect. It was small in size. It came out of the jar and crawled to this room following the smell. Liu Huai was already unconscious at the time. The insect probably crawled into his body along the nasal cavity.
, destroyed his brain and killed him.
Then the bug crawls out again and returns the same way, so there is no trace."
"This woman is Liu Huai's second wife. She was controlled by others and became an accomplice. Now she has become a scapegoat."
After Huo Qubing finished speaking, the woman fell to the ground as if she had lost all her strength.
Qu Jun and Yue Rao couldn't help but feel astonished. The key was that Huo Qulin's speed in clarifying what happened put them, veterans who have been handling cases for many years, to shame.
With strong insight and perception, although the opponent's methods are strange and secretive, they are not without traces.
Huo Qubing thought for a while and continued: "Go and bring Liu Huai's first wife."
This time, Qu Jun and Yue Rao happily accepted the order. Regardless of the reason, they immediately turned around and went to the back house to get someone.
But as soon as they left, they came back: "Lieutenant Liu's first wife was just found dead, with bleeding from her mouth and nose, as if she had hanged herself out of fear of crime."
Soon after, someone carried in from outside the door a woman in her early forties, with slightly longer cheeks, wearing gorgeous dark green and dark brown clothes. She was the deceased Liu Huai's wife.
Her face was purple, her tongue was sticking out, and there were finger marks on her neck. If you look closely, she had strangled herself to death. Her throat bones were completely collapsed and broken, which showed the violent force and the tragic death.
There is obviously a great connection between Liu Huai's first wife and his death.
Huo Qubing just released Soaring Snake outside for perception. He had insight into the inside and outside of the lieutenant's house and could confirm that Liu Huai's first wife was fine in the back house. However, when he withdrew his mental perception and talked to Qu Jun and others, the woman died.
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There was a very powerful opponent secretly. Realizing that Huo Qubing had discovered a problem, he immediately cut off any clues for further investigation.
Someone has been killed more than once in Chang'an recently, but it has never been solved.
Huo Qubing's attack this time almost caught the man in the dark, but it came to an abrupt end because the man died.
"Huo Shizhong, what should we do next?" Qu Jun asked humbly.
Yue Rao's eyes looked expectant.
Is the clue broken?
No... Huo Qubing turned to look out the window again and thought:
If the other party dares to kill an important official in the court, the plot must be quite big. It is not just for killing people. The immediate priority is to dig out the person behind it.
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The sky was dimming, and in the Northern Lieutenant's Mansion, which had been sealed under investigation all night, the Ting Lieutenant and the secret guards gradually evacuated.
The mansion became extremely quiet.
In the same neighborhood as the Lieutenant's Mansion, someone has been secretly paying attention to the changes here all night long.
After daybreak, an old woman with a plain appearance walked out of another mansion in the same block. After leaving the mansion, she went to Fangshi in the south of Chang'an City, like a servant girl who came out to buy things.
She walked around the street and didn't seem to notice that there was a secret guard following her.
At the same time, in the morning, another figure wearing blue coarse cloth left the city from the south gate of Chang'an, and arrived at a remote area at a leisurely pace. His speed increased sharply, and he suddenly merged into the mountains and disappeared in the blink of an eye.<
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The barren hills and low hills undulate, and a figure moves swiftly close to the ground.
Finally, the figure stopped at a location where the terrain could be observed far and near. It was the person leaving the city.
She calmly took off her coarse clothes, revealing a light green and dark dress, with a yellowish complexion, a round face, and a medium height.
She waited in silence for a while, and then another person walked out not far away.
The other person is wearing a brown long dress with a curly train. He is nearly middle-aged, slightly thin, and has his hair tied into a crown.
The man who appeared later asked: "How is it?"
"I've been here for a long time and you haven't shown up. Are you checking to see if I'm doing something clean behind my back?" The woman chuckled and said, "You're more cautious."
"You should always be careful when traveling near Chang'an."
"Don't worry, I made some arrangements before I came out and used a bait. Even if someone secretly noticed several mansions around the Northern Army Lieutenant's Mansion, they would have been lured to her by the bait I put out, and they would never be able to find me.
On my body." The woman looked determined.
The man asked directly: "Lieutenant Liu Huai of the Northern Army is dead?"
"How can I allow him to continue to live if I take action myself?
It's just that Liu Huai was killed. It was a big deal. Someone came to the lieutenant's house last night. I pushed the dead man to open his eyes in the dark. I took a look from the air and saw that he was a young man. Comparing it with the information we got from there, it should be
He was the nephew of the great general of the dynasty, who followed the emperor day and night.
I heard he was an illegitimate child."
The woman raised her lips and said, "I activated Liu Huai's body breathing machine to test him.
The illegitimate son of the Huo family almost found out my existence by some means, and then he found Liu Huai's female family members."
The woman's voice is hoarse and has a strong sense of friction, which makes people feel inexplicably depressed and very uncomfortable.
"He can win the attention of the emperor, so he has some tricks. What method did you use to kill Liu Huai?" the man asked.
The woman said calmly: "I used the soul-nurturing urn."
The man solemnly said: "Soul-nurturing urn? You used that urn spirit to kill Liu Huai and left the breath in his body?"
"Well, Liu Huai is not an ordinary person. I expected that his murder would cause quite a stir, so I made some arrangements in advance... I didn't expect that the illegitimate child would be able to find clues so quickly. Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough."
"Xia Jie, you are too bold." The man frowned.
Xia Jie disagreed: "Although the illegitimate son had some means to resolve the aura of the ghost soul and erased the mark in Liu Huai's body, I could no longer use the corpse to make calculations.
But he still has some way to go before he can find me."
The man said: "The energy you left in Liu Huai's body may have been revealed!"
Xia Jie said proudly: "Absolutely not. After the Qi of the Soul was exposed, I immediately killed Liu Huaifa's wife... How could they find me? It's a pity that I lost a trace of the vitality of the Soul.
That illegitimate son was able to break my soul technique, which is really unexpected."
He added: "My urn-lingling spirit has attacked and killed the masters under heaven and man, but I never expected that I would be suppressed by him.
At that time, I still felt the strong fear of the Urn Spirit in the Soul Urn, and I did not dare to compete with it. Do you know of any method that can be so powerful?"
The man shook his head slightly: "It seems that my trip is more difficult than expected."
"If it were simple, why would we need to join forces?
Since I have decided to take action, I will not make any mistakes."
Xia Jie said leisurely: "I came up with a new idea on the way here. The illegitimate uncle Wei Qing can defeat the Huns in a row, and he himself works beside the emperor. If he finds an opportunity to use the soul-binding technique on him to influence and control him, no matter what
Whether it is a plot against Wei Qing or the emperor, it will be of great benefit to both of us, what do you think?"
The man hesitated and remained silent.
Xia Jie was good at tempting: "Fu Feng, if we two take action together, there will be no mistakes. This is a good opportunity.
He was favored by us only because of his bad luck. When the matter is over, I will give you the promised benefits."