After sending Jiang Xixi away, Shen Qing returned to the courtyard, and as soon as she walked into the courtyard gate, she saw a slender figure standing inside, she was staring at the armillary sphere made of bamboo strips with interest, with a smile on her face.
"Girl, are you?"
"In the early four years of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Heng made a bronze cast armillary sphere, the main body is a circle that can be operated by several layers, two leaky pots are attached to the instrument, there are holes at the bottom of the pot, dripping water pushes the circle, and the circle slowly rotates according to the scale.
The two sides of the bronze instrument are attached to each jade sword, spitting water into the pot, the left is the night, the right is the day.
On the pot stood gold and bronze immortals and Xu disciples, all holding arrows with their left hands and carving with their right fingers, so as to say goodbye to the morning and evening.
Your model is a little rudimentary compared to a real armillary sphere. ” Hearing this, Shen Qing's eyes lit up, and he walked quickly to the young woman, "The girl also knows the armillary sphere?"
” The woman nodded, "It's a pity that such a delicate instrument has been lost." ” Shen Qing beat his chest, "So, I must make a new armillary sphere to observe the celestial phenomena and reform the calendar."
He sighed softly, "If he was still here, my Great Song would have had his own armillary sphere a few years earlier." ” "Him?"
"He was the Si Tianjian of the first emperor, in charge of astronomy, estimating legislation, repairing five dams, and drawing maps" "Wait, since you know that he is a courtier of the first emperor, you should understand that his name cannot be mentioned indiscriminately now."
Shen Qing smiled nonchalantly, "I'm not in the official career, what are you afraid of?"
” "If you don't enter the official career, even if you build an armillary sphere by yourself, you will not be adopted by the above, and you will never be able to seek the well-being of the people.
You are a smart person, and you should not be ignorant of this truth. ” Shen Qing stared at her quietly for a while, then suddenly opened his mouth and asked, "Who are you?"
” The woman smiled, "It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that you have to figure out what you want to do," she stuffed a note into Shen Qing's palm, "After thinking clearly, go to Youzhou to find this person, and take your armillary sphere with you, he will see it, and he will show you a clear way." ” With that, her body flashed and disappeared outside the gate.
Shen Qing spread out the note in his hand and saw a few words written on it: Zhao Zeping, Duke of Wei.
Before the fourth watch, Zhao Laohan, who collected the evil water, went out, he pushed the cart, walked all the way along the South Street, and when he encountered a teahouse and wine shop, he moved the filth placed in front of the door and poured it into the wooden barrel that was more than one person high in the cart.
In front of it is Tianxingyuan, one of the largest wineries in Xin'an City, which is full of diners on weekdays, constantly turning over the table, and of course, it also has the most filth at the door of its house, with a full five sacks.
Zhao Laohan pushed the cart next to these sacks, picked up one of the sacks and poured it into the wooden barrel, the smell of rancid smell came out in an instant, although he was used to it, he still wrinkled his nose, "Eat, eat, these people don't know how big they are, they can eat so many things in one night." ” Seeing the chicken bones, fish bones, and cabbage rice clattering into the barrel, he muttered to the door and picked up another sack.
The sack is very heavy, much heavier than the first one, but the things inside feel very strange, soft and complete, unlike other bags, which are stuffed with scraps and cold when you touch them.
A peculiar stench wafted out of the bag, not the rancid smell of leftovers, it was fishy, like the smell of spoiled pork.
"Could it be that Tianxingyuan put the dead pig in the bag?"
Zhao Laohan was suspicious, but the action did not stop, he drove away a few flies that flew to the sack, and tried his best to move the sack to the side of the cart, just wanted to pour out the contents of the contents, but found that his palms were red, and when he looked down, the gown on his body was also red, and like the bag, it exuded a fishy smell.
"Phew, today is really unlucky, I soiled my clothes early in the morning, and I should be scolded by my wife when I go back."
He scolded and lifted the sack, and with great effort, poured the contents into the barrel one by one.
With a "poof", the long strip smashed against the leftovers in the bucket, leaning diagonally against the edge of the bucket.
The morning dawn had just arrived, and the mist had not yet dispersed, and Zhao Laohan's eyes were a little glazed, and he couldn't see what the blood-stained strip of meat in the bucket was for a while.
He rubbed his eyes, and was about to step forward to take a closer look at it, but he stumbled under his feet and stopped suddenly.
On the "meat strip", a large mass of black puffiness was stained with blood that had not yet coagulated, and then looked down, there were two eyes that were not closed, the whites of the eyes were slightly turned up, and the black eyeballs stared at his stiff body obliquely.
"Ah, dead people, there are dead people."
As a red sun rose, the silence of Sin'an was finally broken by a scream that pierced the mist.
Cheng Muyou stood next to the wooden barrel, and the smell of the food and the putrid smell of the corpse hit at the same time, causing the crowd of onlookers to retreat a few feet backwards.
However, the flies and bugs were attracted by the smell and rushed to the corpse, and put a black layer on the corpse.
Jiang Xixi handed a handkerchief to Cheng Muyou and asked him to cover his mouth and nose, she pointed to Zhao Laohan, who was sitting on the steps of Tianxingyuan, trembling and said, "My lord, the corpse was found by this old man who transported evil water, he came to Tianxingyuan to collect garbage early this morning, and he didn't think that one of the bags contained this corpse." ” Cheng Muyou turned his head, his face was serious, and his brows were tightly locked, "What did the shopkeeper of Tianxing Yuan say?"
” "He said that he took out a total of four bags of filth last night, but for some reason there was an extra bag, and he didn't know where the body came from."
"He shouldn't have lied to anyone, if someone from Tianxingyuan did it, how could he put the corpse in front of the door openly."
Cheng Muyou sighed and glanced at Jiang Xixi, "Move the body out and perform an autopsy." ” The sun shone brightly on the unclothed corpse, and the crowd that had retreated came forward again, and there was a chatter from inside.
"Wow, why don't you have arms, who is so ruthless, dismembering the corpse."
"If you don't want to be recognized by others, you can cut off your head, and if you take off your arms, won't you be able to see who it is?"
"Who can you recognize, you can recognize it, go over."
"Hey, that's what I'm saying, don't be kidding."
Jiang Xixi squatted down next to the straw mat, stared at the male corpse with the missing arm for a while, and then raised his head, "My lord, the second case, you say, could these two cases be done by the same person?"
” Cheng Muyou stared intently at the two wounds the size of the bowl on his body, "Axe, his arm is the same as Yuan Qi, it was cut off with a sharp axe. ”