The little fourth son suddenly said that there was a butterfly, and everyone looked in the direction of his finger... I saw a golden swallowtail butterfly flying in from nowhere. The butterfly was dragging a long tail, surrounded by a ball with a goddess in it.

The decorated brocade box was spinning.

Everyone's attention was attracted by the butterfly.

As I was watching, I heard two "coo-coo" sounds coming from above.

The fourth boy suddenly nodded... and a fat white bird landed on his head.

The little fourth son hurriedly stretched out his hands to hold his head, and the little fat bird twisted twice, squatting like a snowball with fluffy fur, and cooed twice.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both stared at the fat bird. When the bird tilted its head, two small tufts of feathers suddenly stood up on both sides of its head, like two cat ears.

"Ouch!" Lin Yehuo reached out and poked the fat bird, "It even has ears."

"This is a little horned owl," Bai Yutang said.

Everyone looked at Master Wu with some confusion - why do you know so much about bird species?

Zhan Zhao also looked at his own mice with suspicion - are you a hidden bird lover? Did you say you only love cats?

The fifth master reached out and touched the head of the little fat bird. The bird seemed to be enjoying it quite a bit, and it looked serious like a cat when it squinted its eyes.

The little fourth son stretched out his hand, took down the bird, and held it in front of his eyes, "Snowball?"

"Know him?" Xiao Liang also asked.

At the same time, a small black bird of the same style also landed, fluttering its wings and chirping in front of the little fourth son, looking quite happy.

"Ah! Coal briquettes!" Xiao Sizi greeted the little bird happily.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and caught the black bird, thinking it was super cute.

"Are they really snowballs and briquettes?" Gongsun also looked closer and looked a little puzzled, "Will they grow up after two years of not seeing each other?"

Gongsun and Xiaosi both knew these two birds. Fang Jingxiao had raised a pair of little horned owls before. But when they left Shaoxing Mansion, these two birds were so big, and now they have not grown at all when they came back?

Gongsun secretly wondered - could he be the same breed as his fourth son?

While they were talking, they heard the sound of the door opening, and everyone turned around. The originally closed courtyard door was pushed open by several government officials, and two people walked in.

The tall man walking behind, dressed in black, was none other than Fang Jingxiao, the killer who Lin Yehuo and Zou Liang met just now at Xinglong Winery.

The person who walked in in front of Fang Jingxiao was a scholar. He looked about the same age and figure as Gongsun. He had bright eyes and eyebrows and was very handsome. He was wearing lotus-colored casual clothes and strode across the threshold with his hands behind his back.

Quite impressive.

Gongsun recognized this person at a glance as his classmate, Lu Yuelan, the prefect of Shaoxing Prefecture.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang knew Fang Jingxiao, and they guessed that the person who came together should be the prefect. They both nodded. This scholar indeed looked more sinister than Gongsun.

…

Shopkeeper Wang frowned slightly, walked around the booth, and gave a gentle salute to Lu Yuelan who walked up to him, "It turns out you are the prefect, and you are here to visit us. What are you doing?"

Lu Yuelan smiled slightly and said nothing. She stretched out her hand and gently picked the lid of the brocade box containing the Heavenly Lady's Ornament.

As the lid was opened, the swallowtail butterfly that was swirling around the brocade box landed on the head of the goddess's ornament.

Because the upper lid was opened just now, the goddess's ornament has returned to its previous brown-green state of the dried female corpse's head.

At this moment, the butterfly stopped on the head of the female corpse and flapped its wings slowly twice.

Zhan Zhao noticed that as the butterfly fell, both Bai Yutang and Zhao Zhen frowned at the same time.

At the other table, the listless Tang Luomei also sighed, "It's really a lie."

Zhao Pu knew nothing about gems, so he asked Gongsun, who was shaking his head slightly, "Is it fake?"

"Hmm." Gongsun whispered, "Gemstones are natural crystals and will not transmit light like glass. But if you look carefully, there is a reflection of a butterfly in this stone. It is a complete butterfly, just like reflected in the water.

It’s the same as the one inside, so this object is definitely not made of natural crystal. The craftsmanship is good, but this goddess’s ornament is indeed fake.”

The buyers in the yard are quitting.

"Xunwuyuan never sells fake goods, isn't it a golden sign?"

"That's right! Three major banks and eight major antique shops are guaranteeing it, and they're also selling fake things?"

"This is too outrageous!"

"Who can guarantee that there are no fakes in the things you sold before?!"

For a moment, the crowd was angry and the scene was a bit chaotic.

Shopkeeper Wang waved his hands anxiously, "There's no reason! It was clearly true during the previous identification..."

Lu Yuelan asked the shopkeeper, "Who asked you to sell this thing?"

The shopkeeper was a little embarrassed, "This... it is a rule in our industry not to reveal the identity of the buyer or seller..."

Hearing this, Lu Yuelan also smiled and put her arm around the shopkeeper's shoulder, "I said Lao Wang."

"There are only two situations before us!" Lu Yuelan stretched out two fingers and gestured in front of Shopkeeper Wang, "First, someone is using the Object Hunting Garden to sell fake goods. Second, this thing was originally genuine.

, but the package was transferred. Either it was selling counterfeit goods or it was stealing, which all fall under the jurisdiction of my Yamen."

While talking, Lu Yuelan grabbed the old man's beard and shook it, "Tell me! Who put it here for sale? Did you, Wang Ji, embezzle the treasure in a coordinated manner?"

"No! It's unfair, sir!" Shopkeeper Wang waved his hands, and finally had no choice but to tell Lu Yuelan quietly, "He is a friend of my master, his surname is En, and I call him Mrs. En."

"Go! Ask someone to find your master and that benefactor!"

"Hey, I'll send someone right away." The shopkeeper quickly sent someone to call his own staff.

Lu Yuelan asked the yamen to evacuate all the irrelevant buyers. She turned back to look for Fang Jingxiao, only to see Fang Jingxiao waving to a table of guests not far away.

Lu Yuelan glanced curiously and happened to see Zhan Zhao's table.

At this moment, the fourth child was waving to Fang Jingxiao.

"Ah!" Lu Yuelan pointed at Gongsun.

Gongsun also greeted him, "Brother Nian."

"Brother Nian!" Lu Yuelan was excited and ran towards Gongsun and the others.

Gongsun and Lu Yuelan are classmates who were born in the same year. They have known each other since childhood. Lu Yuelan and Gongsun were two months old, and they have always treated each other like brothers.

Seeing Lu Yuelan running over, Zhao Zhen quickly opened his fan to cover half of his face to avoid being exposed.

Lu Yuelan ran over and said to Gongsun, "You're fine," then she hugged the fourth son and rubbed him, "Little fourth son! You've grown so big!"

A satisfied smile on the little fourth child's face.

Everyone here is unable to complain - how can you tell that you have grown up?

Fang Jingxiao also came over to reminisce with Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang.

Zhao Zhen was afraid of being seen, so he held a fan to cover his face with one hand and pulled Nangong's collar open to look for something.

The attention of Fang Jingxiao and Lu Yuelan was attracted, and they turned to look at Zhao Zhen.

Zhan Zhao and others quickly helped divert the attention of the two people.

"By the way, how do you two know that the goods sold here are fakes?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Snowball said it." Lu Yuelan replied.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and turned to look at the white bird that the fourth son was holding in his hand - Snowball?

The fourth son also asked, "Xueqiu, are you so capable..."

After asking, the little bird cooed a few times, and the fourth boy tilted his head, "Eh? You're not Snowball?"

Lu Yuelan was amused and reached out to touch the little fourth child's head, "This is the daughter of Snowball and Coal Ball. Snowball has grown up long ago." As she said this, she pointed at two little birds, one white and one black, "

The white one is a glutinous rice dumpling, the black one is a black rice dumpling, and both are girls."

Everyone wanted to complain - the name was chosen, and... the standards for "growing up" were so different!

"Ah! Found it!"

After searching in Nangong's pocket for a long time, Zhao Zhen finally took out a half-faced mask and put it on himself.

Nangong usually carries a mask that only covers his mouth and nose, mainly to prevent smoke and the like.

Lu Yuelan and Fang Jingxiao both turned around and continued to stare at Zhao Zhen, who was wearing a half-mask.

"Ah!" Everyone continued to help divert the two's attention, "What about the original snowballs and briquettes?"

Fang Jingxiao whistled, and after a while, she saw two huge owls flying in from outside the house, one white and one pure black.

The two birds were similar in size to the snowy owls that Lu Tianhan kept on Icefield Island. The black one spread its wings and circled around everyone's heads before landing on a tree in the courtyard, while the white one landed on Fang Jing's head.

On Xiao's shoulders, he lowered his head and combed the feathers. When he raised his head, the two feathers on his head were raised again, like a squatting big cat.

Mr. Wu thinks that the horned owl is cuter than the snowy owl, and indeed it is cuter with cat ears.

"Are you so handsome when you grow up?" Zhan Zhao held the black rice ball in his hand and compared it with the briquettes on the tree not far away. He felt that the briquettes seemed colder than the snowballs.

Fang Jingxiao took off a piece of leather sleeve protection tied to her wrist and placed it on Zhan Zhao's shoulder.

The black horned owl on the tree immediately flew down and landed on Zhan Zhao's shoulder.
To be continued...