When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

He Yu clasped his hands together, looking pleading.

Guan Ziheng straightened his messed-up clothes and said proudly, "This book has just been published, and only one person in the entire Pinghai Town bought it. I just want to ask who is so discerning to buy such a book."

"Brother Guan thinks so too!"

He Yu's eyes widened, as if he had met a soulmate.

"Of course. Let me tell you, each case here is more exciting than the last, especially the latter..."

"Wait a minute!" He Yu waved his hands and said, "Brother Guan, I haven't watched the rest yet. It would be boring if I knew who the murderer was now, but..."

He Yu turned to look at Lin Lezhi who was standing beside him and said, "No wonder Brother Guan and Lezhi became such good friends after their first meeting at the inn. It turns out that they have met a bosom friend."

Hearing this, Xiao Yihuo, who was applying medicine to the soldiers, turned his eyes slightly and a barely perceptible smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

“That’s, we…eh…eh eh eh…!”

Before Guan Ziheng could finish his words, Lin Lezhi grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the crowd. Lin Lezhi smiled and said, "There are still a lot of clothes waiting to be roasted. I'm too busy to take him there first. Excuse me..."

When Lin Lezhi pulled Guan Ziheng away, with a guilty expression on his face, he happened to meet Xiao Yihuo's smiling eyes.

The meaning behind this smile is self-evident.

Lin Lezhi quickly looked away and quickened his pace.

"Lezhi, why are you walking so fast?"

"If I don't leave quickly, you might tell everyone about what happened between us."

"How could that be? Don't worry about that. I am very sensible."

After leaving the crowd, Guan Ziheng began to look at Lin Lezhi. Lin Lezhi noticed Guan Ziheng's gaze and raised his eyebrows slightly, saying, "Just say whatever you want to say."

With Lin Lezhi's words, Guan Ziheng no longer hid his feelings and asked with a curious expression, "I wanted to ask you since I first came to the island, but I didn't have the chance. Why did you come to the island and change your clothes?"

"Can't you?"

"Okay, of course." Guan Ziheng looked Lin Lezhi up and down and praised him, "As the saying goes, clothes make the man. You look like a noble young man in this outfit."

"really?"

"Yes, the material and workmanship of this dress, I can tell at a glance that it is very valuable."

Hearing this, Lin Lezhi raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "I didn't expect that a scholar like you who reads and writes knows this?"

"That's what I call knowledgeable." Guan Ziheng came forward and asked curiously, "Where did you get this from?"

Lin Lezhi thought about it and remembered that when Xiao Yihuo changed his clothes and returned to the lake yesterday, Guan Ziheng had already returned to the inn. It was understandable that he was curious since he had never seen him before.

Lin Lezhi glanced at Xiao Yihuo who was not far away, then looked at Guan Ziheng and raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "My clothes were burned by fire, and someone borrowed them from me."

"What, burned?! You..."

Guan Ziheng couldn't help but raise his voice, put down the clothes in his hands and went to see if Lin Lezhi was injured, but this movement also attracted the attention of others.

"I'm fine, keep your voice down."

Realizing that his voice was too loud, Guan Ziheng immediately covered his mouth and nodded.

"There was a fire in the woods last night, and I was there to put it out." Lin Lezhi looked at the clothes on Guan Ziheng and said, "You're only blaming me. You've already returned to the inn, why don't you change your clothes?"

There were traces of burns on Guan Ziheng's clothes from when he sailed away from the fire source yesterday.

"I thought it would get dirty again after coming to the island, so I decided not to change it. I'll think about it when I get back. There's no rush."

There was nothing to do while waiting, so after applying medicine and bandaging the wound, people would lie down somewhere to rest.

Under the cover of the soldiers in the same barracks, He Yu chose an angle where he would not be discovered, and leaned aside to read secretly.

When he had some free time, Lin Lezhi opened his bag from the side, and a green dress came into view. However, Lin Lezhi did not focus his gaze on the clothes for too long. He turned up one side of the corner of the clothes and looked at the inner layer.

The things that Shi Peng entrusted to him before his death were still inside, and next to them was the black tassel that he had taken off Xiao Yihuo's jade pendant.

"what is this?"

Lin Lezhi picked up a bulging package next to him, and it made a rustling sound the moment he picked it up.

Guan Ziheng said "Oh" and responded truthfully: "These are the medicines in the room. It would be a pity to throw them away. Besides, I think they may be helpful to the case. If I bring them with me, you can use them, so I brought them with me."

"You came to the island and you didn't let me drink the medicine."

Guan Ziheng laughed a few times and said deliberately: "Good medicine tastes bitter~"

After not sleeping all night, Lin Lezhi couldn't help feeling tired and yawned. A few tears welled up in the corners of his eyes and rolled around in his eye sockets.

"Lezhi, if you're sleepy, take a nap."

"Later."

As he spoke, Lin Lezhi looked in the direction of Xiao Yihuo. Not far away, Xiao Yihuo was leaning against a tree with his eyes closed to rest, and his hair had been recombed.

Liu Yunhe was sleeping with his arms and legs spread out, holding his sword.

Qingchuan was reading a medical book on the side.

Lin Lezhi thought for a while, then picked up the green clothes in the bag and said, "Wait for me, I'll be back soon."

"it is good…"

Guan Ziheng didn't know what Lin Lezhi wanted to do, and nodded in confusion.

Before Lin Lezhi approached, Xiao Yihuo opened his eyes. Qingchuan glanced in their direction, smiled, and said nothing. He continued to look at the medical book in his hand.

Seeing Lin Lezhi coming over with his hands behind his back and an embarrassed look on his face, Xiao Yihuo looked at Lin Lezhi with interest and asked, "What's the matter?"

"What happened!"

Hearing Xiao Yihuo's words, Liu Yunhe, who was in a deep sleep, suddenly jumped up from the ground, shook his head left and right, and was alert to the situation around him, but his eyes were still very sleepy.

After seeing that it was Lin Lezhi, Liu Yunhe relaxed his tense mood, but then asked in confusion: "You...how did you get here?"

"I'm here to bring clothes to your son."

Lin Lezhi thought about it and decided that based on Xiao Yihuo's personality, he probably wouldn't wear things that other people had worn. Now that he had given away his clothes, he probably wouldn't want them back.

Lin Lezhi also came here with the mentality of giving it a try, and was mentally prepared to be rejected.

It’s not like I’m disheveled anyway.

But this set of clothes is clean at least, maybe Xiao Yihuo will accept it.

Lin Lezhi explained his intention, squatted down and took out the green clothes behind him, looked at Liu Yunhe and said: "This clothes is a little torn, but I have washed it clean and sewed the torn parts. Your son can wear it if he wants to. If he doesn't want to wear it, I won't..."

"You're sending me clothes, why don't you just tell me directly."

Xiao Yihuo made up his mind, then took the clothes from Lin Lezhi's hand, and said with a smile in his eyes: "Mr. Lin's kindness, I will naturally accept it."

Liu Yunhe was shocked again and stood there like a fool, looking as if he was looking at a stranger.

Qingchuan smiled faintly, his eyes never leaving the book.

Xiao Yihuo took the clothes and didn't just pretend to do it. He put them on neatly in front of Lin Lezhi, which made Lin Lezhi stunned.

Looking at the neatly dressed Xiao Yihuo, Lin Lezhi had to admit from the bottom of his heart that this person was different from others.

Xiao Yihuo was tall and handsome. Even though he was wearing patched clothes, it couldn't conceal his noble aura.

"Why are you so stunned?"

Lin Lezhi turned around and waved his hand in front of Liu Yunhe's eyes, and Liu Yunhe came back to his senses.

"Nothing...Nothing. I might be dreaming because I haven't woken up yet."

"What are you dreaming about? You look quite awake with your eyes wide open."

As he spoke, Lin Lezhi suddenly thought of something and asked, "Last night, after I met up with your young master, I went to look for you, but I found that you had already left. Did you encounter a snake?"

Hearing this, Liu Yunhewan's vision suddenly froze in his dream, as if he had seen something terrible.

Qingchuan, who was reading a medical book nearby, also stopped and closed the book in his hand with a serious expression.

Seeing their somewhat stiff expressions, Xiao Yihuo and Lin Lezhi looked at each other with heavy eyes, guessing that they must have encountered something last night.

If you think about it carefully, the commoner who was knocked unconscious by He Yu was with Liu Yunhe and the others, and he had been uneasy since they met.

"There were indeed snakes last night, but not many. In a hurry, we moved to another place. After confirming that there was no danger, we started a fire to prevent snakes. Four of us took turns to keep watch. In the second half of the night, we suddenly heard a scream..."

Qingchuan tightened the medical book in his hand, his eyes solemn as he said, "That sound was not made by the four of us, and the distance was not very far. We were afraid that someone might be killed, so the four of us took fire and went to the place where the sound was made to investigate. We found bloodstains and signs of dragging in the forest."

"What?!" Lin Lezhi frowned and his eyes deepened.

"But the strange thing is yet to come." Liu Yunhe took over and said, "We walked along the blood trail with torches for a distance, and suddenly a white light flashed from the ground, followed by a large amount of white smoke. It was different from fog, rising from the grass and dancing in the air."

The conversation between the few people was also heard by someone who was resting nearby. He was frightened, but continued to listen with an uneasy look.

"White smoke?"

As they spoke, Lin Lezhi and Xiao Yihuo looked at each other.

"Yes, Qingchuan and I wanted to go over and take a look, but the elder brother was so frightened that he ran away shouting that there was a ghost. The forest was foggy and we were afraid that he would get lost in the forest, so we had to give up and follow him. We found him when the fog began to dissipate at dawn. After seeing the smoke, we hurried back to the village."

"When you approached, did you smell anything?"

"odor?"

Liu Yunhe murmured in a low voice and fell into deep thought. Qingchuan said after thinking for a moment: "I thought about it carefully later. It should be phosphorus powder. Maybe someone sprinkled phosphorus powder on the grass. When we were exploring the way with fire, we accidentally ignited it."

After hearing this, Lin Lezhi also told Xiao Yihuo about the white smoke he and Xiao Yihuo saw in the courtyard last night.

The soldier who was traveling with Qingchuan last night said in a weak voice with fear on his face: "When I was chasing that man last night, I was tripped by something in the bushes. I thought it was a snake, so I looked at it in panic and found that it was something discarded by someone. But it was too urgent at the time, so I forgot about it."

The soldier paused and then said, "I think that place might be on the way to the village."

Lin Lezhi thought for a moment and suggested, "Since we have to wait anyway, why don't we go and take a look."

"No need to look, he is telling the truth."