Zhu Xiucai, who was checking on the side, saw Qin Shaoyou making a discovery and hurriedly came over.
After seeing a few scraps of skin in Qin Shaoyou's hand, he looked shocked.
However, he is an experienced old night watchman after all, and he quickly recognized that these pieces were fragments of human skin, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, as if asking, or saying to himself: "Is Ruan Xiangxiang a painted-skinned ghost?
"
Before Qin Shaoyou could answer, he shook his head again, rejecting his guess:
"No, if Ruan Xiangxiang is a painted ghost and the skin covering her body is broken, she can't possibly not notice it.
Moreover, when the painted ghosts wear human skin, it is as if the human skin has grown on their bodies. There will not and should not be such damage.
This kind of broken skin is more likely to occur after the entire skin was peeled off and caught in the gap in the bathtub.
Although the painted ghosts will take off their human skin to maintain it, they will not take it off while taking a bath in the tub. They usually take it off in front of the easel to facilitate casting and painting..."
Having said this, Zhu Xiucai remembered the brushes and drawing paper he had just seen on the table.
He hurriedly turned around and walked over, picked up the pen and paper with his gloved hands and looked at it carefully.
After putting the pen and paper back in place, he took out a special compass from his pocket and went around the inside and outside of the table, carefully checking and measuring.
Qin Shaoyou, who was squatting next to the bathtub, turned his head to look at him after he finished his work. While reading "Da Xia Lu", he asked with his eyes: "How was it?"
Zhu Xiucai understood his brows, shook his head and said: "The paper and pen are high-end goods, but they are just ordinary objects, without spiritual energy or fluctuations of evil spirits. No new broken skin or fluctuations of evil spirits were found inside and outside the table.
"
This situation was expected by Qin Shaoyou, because he did not think Ruan Xiangxiang was a painted ghost, so he was not surprised or regretful.
Zhu Xiucai muttered: "If it wasn't a painted skin, why would Ruan Xiangxiang shed her skin? Is she a snake demon? Her waist looks like a water snake. But didn't the old Taoist say that she doesn't have the aura of a ghost in her body? Doesn't she have any way to hide herself?
Have you deceived the eyes of the old master?"
A way to hide?
Qin Shaoyou raised his eyebrows slightly.
This possibility really cannot be ruled out.
He planned to go downstairs later and discuss it with Senior Brother Cui.
After making a decision, Qin Shaoyou took out a dagger from his crotch. He used the tip of the dagger to pick out the gaps in the tub and picked out a lot of dirt stains. Then he picked out a lot of dirt stains from them.
There are a few small black pieces.
"what are these?"
Zhu Xiucai couldn't hold it back and asked.
Of course, after asking questions, he did not forget to help recite the "Daxia Law".
"Blood stain." Qin Shaoyou squinted his eyes and said, "There is similar blood stain in other gaps in the bathtub, and this is only a small part of it."
Zhu Xiucai was stunned when he heard this: "Why is there blood stains in the bathtub?"
Qin Shaoyou also said: "Yes, why is there blood stains in the bathtub? What does this mean?"
"illustrate……"
Zhu Xiucai thought for a while and asked tentatively: "Ruan Xiangxiang is menstruating, why don't you take a bath?"
"Hold."
Qin Shaoyou really couldn't hold it back and uttered a foul language, which even affected his ability to recite the "Law of Daxia", causing side effects of the magic ghost bead, which made him feel irritable.
He originally wanted to complain that Zhu Xiucai was disgusting, but seeing this situation, he could only stop complaining and memorize the "Daxia Law" again, so that the side effects of the illusion ghost beads did not explode.
Zhu Xiucai saw Qin Shaoyou's reaction and quickly explained: "I don't have a clue about this matter, so I want to change my mind. It can also ease the atmosphere and stimulate imagination..."
Qin Shaoyou glared at him and was too lazy to curse.
Zhu Xiucai laughed, then became serious, and analyzed: "There is blood stain in the bathtub, does it mean that Ruan Xiangxiang used the bathtub to fill the blood? But why did she do this? Was she taking a bath with blood? These are
Human blood?”
Qin Shaoyou shook his head. He didn't know whether the blood stains were human blood.
He planned to collect part of it, take it back with the pieces of broken skin, and give it to Shan Daonian to check the situation.
"Assuming that Ruan Xiangxiang took a bath with human blood, where did the human blood come from? Where did she take it and destroy it after taking the bath? Also, why did Ruan Xiangxiang take a bath with human blood? To practice some kind of evil magic
?"
These questions raised by Zhu Xiucai are all critical.
After he became serious, he was still very reliable.
Qin Shaoyou was also thinking about these questions and suddenly asked: "In the recent period, have you received any cases of death due to excessive blood loss?"
Zhu Xiucai shook his head and said: "Our Demon Suppression Department has never received such a case. I don't know if the government office has received it."
After a pause, he added: "The human blood that Ruan Xiangxiang uses for bathing does not necessarily come from the same person. If she doesn't want to be noticed, she can take blood from several people. In this case, the person whose blood was taken will not die.
, at most it will be weak for a period of time..."
Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered someone.
Qin Shaoyou also thought of the same person.
They had previously encountered students from the government who 'worked too hard, wasted their energy and harmed their bodies'.
The way the students in that mansion looked when they were sick, didn't they look like they had weak Qi and blood?
Could he have something to do with it?
"Is there any result in the investigation of students in this mansion?" Qin Shaoyou asked immediately.
Zhu Xiucai said: "We are still investigating. When I get back, I will supervise the relevant personnel... No, when I get back, I will check it myself."
Qin Shaoyou nodded and checked the tub again, but found no new clues.
After putting away the broken skin and blood stains, Qin Shaoyou thought for a while, and then used the magic ghost beads to ask a few questions to the two maids, asking them if Ruan Xiangxiang had any weird behavior or behavior since he came to Piaoxiang Courtyard.
matter.
Under the influence of the magic ghost beads, the two maids thought they were chatting with each other. In addition, Qin Shaoyou was more skillful in asking questions and also used [Skillful Tongue], so the two maids had no suspicion at all.
And judging from their reactions, you can tell that they are talking a lot in private.
According to the answers of the two maids, they usually take care of Ruan Xiangxiang when he takes a bath.
But they didn't notice anything wrong during the bath.
In addition, during the time they served Ruan Xiangxiang, they did not see anything weird or abnormal.
The only situation is that after following Ruan Xiangxiang, they would feel sleepy every now and then.
Sometimes they dozed off because they were sleepy before Ruan Xiangxiang had rested.
Fortunately, Ruan Xiangxiang is generous and has always been considerate of them and never blamed them.
If this were the other mean top girls in Piaoxiang Courtyard, they would have been dealt with long ago.
After answering Qin Shaoyou's questions, the two maids began to gossip on their own about the overt and covert fights in Piaoxiang Courtyard.
Even though this place is just a brothel, it is no less exciting than Gongdou.
But Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai didn't have time to listen to this.
They all remembered one thing: in Mianyuan County, when painting skin ghosts, they would first use black magic to stun maids and old ladies.
It seems that Ruan Xiangxiang should have used the same method on the two maids.