Bring your son to chase after your wife, please go home

Chapter 118 In-depth investigation
Inside the box is a string that is coiled and tied tightly with a ribbon.

"Is this thing really taken out of the bronze tripod?" Baili Changge pointed at the string, frowning even deeper.

"Yes!" Wei Yu seemed to see hope, "Ajin, hurry up and see if you can find any clues with this thing, and clear up Miss Qin's grievances."

Baili Changge took the small box, took out the intact strings, opened it for a look, and handed it to Ye Hen.

Ye Hen glanced at it casually, then raised his eyebrows and said, "It's strange that it's burning continuously."

keep burning...

This concept has been circling in Baili Changge's mind. The first thing she thought of was the weird bracelet on her hand. She accidentally knocked it down into the center of the flame, but it was still intact after taking it out. It is something that burns constantly.

Asking the dumb girl to leave the food behind, Wei Yu was dismissed. After Baili Changge closed the door and came back, she walked up to Ye Hen and asked in a low voice, "Do you think this string looks familiar?"

"Oh?" Ye Hen raised his eyebrows, took the string and looked at it carefully for a while, then put it back into the box, and asked her, "Where does it look familiar?"

Baili Changge carefully recalled the situation when he accidentally knocked over the candlestick and burned the bracelet that day, and then slowly said: "This bracelet, I actually put it on the fire and burned it, just like these strings, it will continue to burn no matter what. .”

"Then it seems that there is some connection between the two." Ye Hen said, seeming to remember something, and said: "I met a silkworm farmer in the Imperial City, and we will make a special trip to ask after we go back. Ask him what it is, and maybe he can solve the mystery of the red cube on the bracelet."

Baili Changge nodded, still feeling a little unbelievable.

"Don't think about it, come and eat first!" Ye Hen waved to her.

The two ate their meal very quietly, and Baili Changge kept thinking whether the strings were the reason why Qin Dai and Xu Luo rushed into the altar regardless of their own safety?
So, besides burning continuously, what is so special about this string?
After eating, Baili Changge looked at the bracelet under the lamp for a long time, and when she caught sight of the black dots in the middle of the red square, a flash of light came to her mind, and she immediately asked Ye Hen: "Do you still remember when When Shaoqing died, the second square turned red, and the outline of black dots on it is the floating Tibetan flower?"

Ye Hen looked up at her, noncommittal.

She handed the bracelet to him and said: "Since the floating flower is the indirect weapon that caused Shaoqing's death, then I think the content implied by the black dots on the third square must have a great relationship with the deaths of Qin Dai and Xu Luo." connect."

After she finished speaking, she took a brush from the pen holder next to it to fill up the ink, spread the white paper on the table, dotted the black dots on the rice paper according to the pattern on the square, and then put together the floating The flower's line drawing method connects all the black dots.

"It's still a flower!" Baili Changge was a little surprised when they all connected together. She pointed to the blurred outline on the rice paper and said, "Look at this, it looks like a plum blossom and a peach blossom." He said: "But what do these two kinds of flowers have to do with the deaths of those two people? Shouldn't the hint of the cube be a string of a zither or the sacred fire in the bronze tripod?"

Ye Hen shook his head after reading it, also expressing his puzzlement.

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Early in the morning of the second day, Baili Changge went directly to Songhua Lane in West City after having breakfast with Ye Hen and Dudu.

The residential buildings in Chuzhou are very different from those in the Imperial Capital City. Because of the cold weather, they are usually built with the front facing the sun. In the Imperial Capital City, most of them are deep and large courtyards. In Chuzhou, the walls are thicker and thinner. , a flat-roofed room with small doors and windows.

The carriage was walking on the soft lawn, and as far as the eye could see, the morning sun reflected the golden light on the white snow on the distant mountain peaks. Even with the sun, the wind was still chilly.

Baili Changge put down the curtain and sighed softly: "This place is so beautiful, but it's very cold."

Ye Hen smiled, "If you like it, you can stay and play around after the case is over."

"Forget it." Baili Changge quickly waved his hand, "I'm looking forward to closing the case and returning to the Imperial Capital as soon as possible. I can't stay in such a cold place for a moment."

Not long after, the two found the location of Qin Dai's house based on the directions they found out.

Baili Changge jumped out of the carriage and knocked on the door. The person who opened the door was an old man who was over sixty years old. The old man was wearing a gray jacket embroidered with Manchu patterns.

Seeing Baili Changge, the old man raised his beard, squinted his eyes and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"Old man, I came here to investigate the case on the order of the governor. About your daughter Qin Dai..." Before Baili Changge could finish speaking, the old man slammed the door, and an angry voice was heard through the wall. He said, "I don't have such a shameless daughter, you go away quickly, no one from the yamen is welcome here!"

"Old man, I have a badge from the government office. If you are so stubborn and close the door, the governor will investigate further, but it will be a crime of obstructing the office!" Baili Changge could tell that the old man hadn't gone far, and she Stand by the gate and yell into it.

When the old man heard this, he was quite helpless, so he had to go back and forth and open the door. Baili Changge motioned for Ye Hen in the carriage to come down, and the two walked in.

Entering through the gate, there is a small courtyard with a length of three feet and a width of three feet. In the courtyard, there is a water green tree, and there are some crystal dewdrops hanging on the perennial green leaves.

The old man has been sitting on the stone bench under the water green tree smoking dry cigarettes since he entered. The smoke is spit out from his mouth in circles. The pungent smell forced Baili Changge to tilt his head to one side.

She looked at the small bungalow in front of her, and asked the old man: "Old man, Miss Qin's body is still in Yizhuang, don't you plan to bring her back for burial?"

"Hmph!" The old man snorted coldly: "A person who is about to get married, but also commits such shameful and scandalous things, and loses all the face of his ancestors. I, Qin Kaiming, don't have such a daughter!"

Baili Changge pursed his lips, thinking that Qin Dai is really pitiful, and her father treats her with cold eyes when she is dead, "Then, old man, do you know who is the man who was burned to death with Miss Qin?"

"I don't know!" Qin Kaiming angrily threw three words at her.

"This girl is mean, just like her mother, she only follows wild men." Qin Kaiming pouted bitterly in resentment.

This old man is very angry, if he continues to ask this question, there will probably be a fight today.

Looking at Ye Hen, Baili Changge hurriedly asked about Qin Dai's room.

The two threw the old man in the yard and walked into Qin Dai's room.

(End of this chapter)