As a guest who often plays rogues, Zhu Jiutou has a nickname in various spring courtyards, but he is not a real person. His death is calm and the topic of discussion provided lasts at most three days. If Jiang and Zheng hadn't inquired early, they would probably never have heard anyone mention his name again.

"Diet? When did it happen?" Yuan Mao was more surprised than everyone.

"It should be that I died under the wall of Hu's family last night. I was not found in the whole night. I was frozen into a stick in the morning." Jiang Erpi suddenly laughed out loud, "Constable Lao Jia thought he was a drunk man. He kicked him up and found that he was a dead man, and his skin was peeled off. He was so scared that he kept climbing up. He always said that he was brave. Haha."

"How do you know it's Zhu Jiutou when you are peeled off?" Yuan Mao asked again.

Zheng Sanhun raised his hand to cover his right face and snatched: "Half peeled and half are left, and we have found many people to recognize our identities."

Yuan Mao had nothing to say and looked at Hu Guiyang and Wei Ying blankly.

"Have you notified his family?" Hu Guiyang asked.

"Whose family?" Jiang Erpi didn't understand.

"Zhu Jiutou."

"It shouldn't be, because I heard that the local area still needs to be reported as an unknown corpse."

"Hmm?" Hu Guiyang frowned.

Wei Ying said, "It's the first month of the year now, and the local area does not want to be troubled. The nameless body will become a unsolved case for a few days. There is no need to worry about it. Everyone can save their efforts and worry."

"Wei Baihu is worthy of being an old yamen." Jiang Erpi said complimentingly. In fact, Wei Ying was only in her thirties and was relatively late for joining the Jinyiwei, less than ten years later.

"But someone has recognized him, and the Zhu family can't find anyone, so they have to go to the government to report the case." Hu Guiyang was still puzzled.

Jiang Erpi smiled and said, "I lost half of my face. The so-called recognition is just a guess. What if I don't guess correctly? Anyway, no one will stand up to testify. As for the Zhu family, they have long regarded him as dead and will not ask at all. Maybe they will continue to use his name to receive the salary."

Zhu Jiutou was born in a military household and received some military pay, which was not enough for him to squander, so he often asked for money from his family.

Hu Guiyang visited the Zhu family during the day. At that time, Zhu Jiutou had been killed, but the news did not spread. The Zhu family's attitude was indeed extremely cold.

"I didn't expect him to get anything. Just die, just save a lot of trouble." Wei Ying didn't take this person seriously from the beginning to the end.

"It's really strange, but it's when I'm about to see it..." Hu Guiyang couldn't take it lightly.

"Zhu Jiutou was killed last night, and you just wanted to see him this morning, so this is not a 'false'." Wei Ying said with a smile.

"Strip half of his face, who has such a big grudge against him?" Hu Guiyang still wanted to continue asking.

"I know." Zheng Sanhun immediately said, "It must be the person from Wuque Hutong. Zhu Jiutou ate Xiong Xin and Leopard's courage, but he dared to use fake silver, so he was retaliated."

"That's right, half of the money Zhu Jiutou brought was real and half fake, so he was..." Jiang Erpi also raised his hand to cover half of his face.

"Why should I throw the body under my wall? Is Wuque Hutong threatening me?"

"It turns out that Brother Gui Yang cares about this matter." Jiang Erpi finally understood, "It is logical that no, why? If it is a threat, it should be left at the gate instead of under the wall. This is the rule."

"Rules? It seems like you have thrown many bodies."

"Hehe, I haven't thrown the body, but I've heard of it."

Wei Ying advised: "Personnel Hu, don't be too suspicious. Wuque Hutong may not know that it is your home. Of course, if you must continue to investigate, it will be up to you."

Hu Guiyang thought for a long time and said with a smile: "Forget it, I have a lot of cases in my hands, so how can I find out about this? I don't know if I should sympathize with the Zhu family or congratulate the Zhu family."

Jiang Erpi curled his lips, "If you want me, don't provoke the Zhu family. At this time, you will be extremely annoying when you come to someone's house, whether it's sympathy or congratulations."

He didn't know that these three Jinyiwei had just passed by the Zhu family today.

"Let's rest." Hu Guiyang yawned, "It seems that I have to look for clues in my dream. Yuan Mao, are you going home or staying here?"

"I live here from today until the investigation is over."

“Front yard or back yard?”

"Those four aliens..."

"Anyway, they never fought when I was there."

"Then I'll live in the backyard."

Hu Guiyang went out and called Brother Hua and asked him to go to the backyard to clean up another room.

The others dispersed, Jiang Erpi and Zheng Sanhun joked about Zhu Jiutou while walking, and did not take his death seriously.

Hu Guiyang is not required to stay at night in the backyard. The four strange people reunited on the surface and had already made arrangements.

Dapian came to greet the owner. Yuan Mao looked at the two red jades and sighed: "A man is not as good as a dog."

"Hang around your neck?"

Yuan Mao immediately shook his head, "If it's not as good as a dog, is it worse than a dog. Who made me lose the courage? Dapian, tell me, where did your courage come from?"

"Wow." Dabing shouted twice against the owner's legs, which made the two laugh.

"I want another pot of wine, let's talk at night." Hu Guiyang suggested.

"Will it attract... that person's suspicion?" Yuan Mao pointed to Wei Ying.

"You are not a peerless beauty, what's there to doubt? The old Taoist said that we are friends of life and death, and it's suspicious if we don't have a candle talk at night."

"That's right." Yuan Mao smiled and thought for a while, "You go back to the house first. I'll go to the front yard to ask for wine, and by the way, I'll meet the housekeeper of Zhao's house."

Ordering wine and ordering dishes at night is an annoying thing, but Yuan Mao has his own way to make Mrs. Hua happy. The wine is boiling soup and the side dishes are delicious. Mrs. Hua personally brought it with a smile on her face, without a single word.

Brother Hua ordered a charcoal basin and retreated as usual, "My mother is embarrassed to speak, so I will say one more thing: These wines and vegetables are enough for you to eat for a while. When the wines and vegetables are cold, heat them on the charcoal, and put the rest on the table. I will clean them up tomorrow morning, and I will ask you not to harass everyone again tonight."

"Go, don't sleep with confidence. Even if you die in the backyard, you won't call me." Hu Guiyang smiled.

Brother Hua shuddered and ran out of the house quickly.

Yuan Mao went to close the door, "Why are even your servants so special and interesting?"

"First, they are relatives who come to help, not servants. Second, Uncle Sun knows me best, and he recommends people, so I just sit back and enjoy the fruits."

"Haha, this mother and son can only do things with you. Come on, I'll give you a cup."

Neither of them planned to compete for alcohol. They drank slowly, and they had more jokes than vegetables, and they drank quite comfortably.

"If the old Taoist knew that we didn't call him here, we would definitely be jealous." Yuan Mao said.

Hu Guiyang immediately saw Fan Dajian's sad look on his face, and he couldn't help laughing, "It's really possible. In order to prevent him from being unhappy, I will teach you a trick."

"What trick?" Yuan Mao knew that Hu Guiyang had many ideas, but he was also very curious.

"A trick that can make a lot of money can make a fortune with this trick. And you told him this trick, so he will naturally not be jealous of us drinking."

"Tell me quickly." Yuan Mao became more and more curious.

"The old Taoist tried to intervene and Wuque Hutong and the spring courtyard in the city, do you know?"

"Well, it is said that he has found a way to contact the Eunuch Liang in the palace. He will be summoned after the Lantern Festival. He gathered a large amount of silver from various spring courtyards to buy Eunuch Liang."

"If this trick doesn't work, Old Dao Fan will not only be able to get nothing, but will also annoy the expectant Spring Garden."

"What do you know?"

"Yeah." Hu Guiyang didn't say in detail.

"Then I have to remind the old man as soon as possible and let him return the money."

"If that happens, you won't be rich."

"you mean……"

"Let the old Taoist still give money to Eunuch Liang, but don't give too much. Then say that the matter will be done and then collect money from each spring courtyard."

"This is a fraud. Once it is exposed, the old Taoist can't afford it."

"It will not be exposed. The old Taoist only needs to persist until March and April, and at most May, Wuque Hutong will return to normal." These things were learned by Hu Guiyang from Eunuch Zeng.

"Return to normal?"

"Well, it's just returning to an ordinary Chunyuan Hutong, and there's no more magic that makes customers reluctant to leave."

Yuan Mao thought for a while, "Menhuchun is about to be used up?" He had heard of this pill from Ren Liuer and knew that it was the source of the "magic" of Wuque Hutong.

Hu Guiyang nodded.

"Hey, your message is worth a thousand gold, why don't you tell the old Taoist myself?"

"The old master owes me too much, and I'm afraid he will feel that he can't pay it back no matter what. With a hatred, he might as well stop paying it back."

"Haha, your thoughts are really weird. Since everyone is friends..." Yuan Mao suddenly couldn't speak, his face became a little embarrassed, and he took a sip of the half-cooled wine. "Liu'er guessed that the pot of spring is not only an aphrodisiac, but also used to find hidden aliens."

"This guess is quite interesting. What is her basis?"

"Zhu Jiutou got a sum of silver from her, pretended to be Mr. Zhu Jiu and went to Wuque Hutong. After drinking, he became irritable and took off his clothes and ran around."

"I always heard that someone ran out of the house without clothes in Wuque Hutong. It turned out that it was him."

"He was one of them, and he was forced to hold him down by several men before he ran far. Zhu Jiutou fainted at that time. When he woke up, he heard someone talking around him. He didn't open his eyes and overheard a few words: 'Is he?''Not like, he is not strong enough.''But it's not small, do you want to report to the palace?''Wait a little longer and see his changes.'"

"Just these few words?"

"Well, Zhu Jiutou has been to Yunyang Prefecture. When the imperial court recruited troops and suppressed bandits last year, he was selected."

"Even so, we may be able to guess that these words are related to Yiren. How did Ren Liuer guess it? She shouldn't know much about Yiren, right?"

"She has received an Yiren at the Ren family." Yuan Mao showed some embarrassment again, shook his head, and continued: "The Yiren was hiding and not revealing his true identity to Liu'er. He said that the court should use Yiren to build an invincible army, and at the same time, to eliminate all Yiren who refuse to surrender."

"There are four Yiren in this courtyard who refuse to surrender. One of them has been living in Wuque Hutong and has not seen the court take action."

"I can't explain what you said, and Liu'er doesn't understand either, but she knows one thing that Zhu Jiutou has been targeted, and these people follow the clues and begin to suspect Liu'er."

"What do you doubt her? She has never been to Yunyang."

"It's here, Liu'er goes to Yunyang." Yuan Mao sighed. He didn't expect the trouble to be so big at first.

Hu Guiyang was confused and didn't know where to ask.
Chapter completed!