Chapter Twenty-Four: Misfortune Doesn't Go Alone
The shopkeeper of the Four Seas Inn was originally standing behind the head catcher with a sad face, but when he heard that the head catcher actually knew these people who died tragically, he hurriedly asked softly: "Huang Zhutou, do you always know these people?" ”
Huang Zhutou nodded and said: "I know, the three sects and nine streams on the ground in our line can be familiar, not to mention that there are three executioners here who were originally executed by the government office, I am just curious how the person next to me got mixed with the three of them?" With that, he gestured to one of them.
The shopkeeper of the Four Seas Inn asked in surprise: "Then who is this one, is there anything wrong with being with the others?" ”
Huang Zhutou looked at the shopkeeper and said, "Are you a little too troublesome from the shopkeeper Li?" I was asking about the situation of these people. You don't have any other ideas!"
Shopkeeper Li was so frightened that he hurriedly defended: "Master Huang, you can see clearly, I have such a big thing here, four died inexplicably, this reputation is probably plummeting, and it is estimated that the future business will not be able to do. So it's inevitable that there will be a little more mouth! ”
Huang Zhutou snorted coldly: "This is the best, you don't have any other ideas, the official knife in my hand is not a vegetarian." ”
Shopkeeper Li rubbed the cold sweat that scared out of his forehead and replied flatteringly: "That's natural, who doesn't know that Huang Zhutou has always been vigorous and resolute in handling cases, and a pair of sharp eyes can often find clues that ordinary people can't find." I heard that Huang Zhutou solved a murder case yesterday? ”
Huang Zhutou nodded quite appetically and said, "Shopkeeper Li's news is well-informed, what you said was the manager of Yichun Hall who committed suicide yesterday." "
Shopkeeper Li hurriedly stretched out his right thumb and said: "This street and alley have been spread all over, Huang Zhutou is really like lightning, and the case was cracked in just one morning, and the people are full of praise for Huang Zhutou, and they all say that there is no case that cannot be solved if Huang Zhutou is there." ”
Huang Zhutou waved his hand and said: "Where, this is what I should do, but the people are too ridiculous." Shopkeeper Li, didn't you just ask me who this person is, and what's wrong with being with the others? Let me tell you that this person's surname is Feng Mingzhihai, and he is the elder brother of the steward who committed suicide in Yichun Hall yesterday. Someone was sent to summon this person yesterday afternoon, but he didn't find him at the time! As for what you said about being with a few others, according to my understanding of a few of them, they shouldn't have much contact, this Feng Zhihai used to sell dog skin plasters under the overpass, and after this younger brother became the chief steward, he also sold some small herbs by the way, and often did some things to bully and dominate the market on weekdays, and those three were executioners, so I didn't think I had anything to do with it. ”
Shopkeeper Li smacked his tongue and said: "Within two days, the two brothers were both killed, there should be no connection between this, right?" I don't know if these two have someone in the family, if there is a high hall alive, it is already heart-wrenching for the white-haired person to send the black-haired person, not to mention that the two brothers are both killed, so the disaster can not be accepted by the old man! ”
Huang Zhutou looked at the shopkeeper Li and sighed and said in a deep voice: "Who can say clearly, no one dares to make a conclusion about whether it is related before the facts of the case are ascertained, as for you asking if there is a family member Gao Tang is still alive, don't you just want to know if there is a family member who came to you to make trouble afterwards?" I can tell you plainly that neither of the two brothers has ever had a family, and yesterday I sent someone to find out if there were any relatives in the case of Steward Feng of Yichun Hall, and there was no one else except the two brothers, so you can rest assured! ”
Shopkeeper Li smiled awkwardly, it was a tacit acquiescence to Huang Zhutou's ability to see through his thoughts, and he heard the sound of stumbling outside the door, and the corridor was full of people during the time when the two were talking, Shopkeeper Li saw that there were more and more people gathered at the door, so he gently tugged the corner of Huang Zhutou's clothes and said: "Huang Zhutou, you see that there are so many people gathered outside, in case there is a flash and the scene is solved, it is not good for you to solve the case, or you can send someone to disperse the people?" ”
Huang Zhutou glanced at Shopkeeper Li, smiled slightly, and then beckoned a servant to come over and ordered: "Go and blast out unrelated people, a group of people are noisy here to affect the verdict of the case." After receiving the order, the official went out and drove away the crowd who were watching the excitement outside the door. There was only one post-mortem and two officials left in the room. When the shopkeeper saw that the people gathered outside the door were all driven downstairs, he stepped forward and said to Huang Zhutou: "Huang Zhutou, look, if you don't let the servants inspect the corpse here, you can wait with me in the next room, the blood in this room really smokes me unbearable." ”
Huang Zhutou thought for a while and said: "That's okay, since Shopkeeper Li is unwell, and seeing that there will be no decisive conclusion here for a while, then I will accompany Shopkeeper Li to the next room for a while." With that, he walked out, and Shopkeeper Li followed closely behind him to the next room.
Ruyi Building is not a lonely building, but is made up of a row of buildings connected to each other, carved beams and painted buildings towering into the sky, so not brilliant. This is the largest restaurant in Qingzhou, at the beginning of the lanterns, diners dressed in gorgeous costumes come one after another, the restaurant is very lively outside, even the shouting of small vendors sounds quite rhythmic in it, and the little second brother in the restaurant shuttles through the crowd with dinner plates in hand.
I vaguely heard the doorman at the door shouting: "The three VIPs upstairs, please, maybe the diners won't care about this simple sentence, but the little second brothers who ran the hall stopped and looked at the door, because they knew the meaning of this sentence, it turned out that this was a code word, and only the people in Ruyi Lou knew what this sentence meant."
Ruyi Building is a total of five floors, the first and second floors are basically ordinary diners, if someone comes to greet the door and say that it is a few masters, please. The third and fourth floors are generally high-ranking officials and nobles, squires and wealthy people, each floor has thirty-two private rooms, if people need to dine in the private rooms on the third or fourth floors, the door greets and says that a few distinguished guests upstairs please. And there are only eight rooms on the fifth floor, these eight facilities are equipped with the highest specifications, even the people who serve the service are young women who have been specially trained by piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, not everyone can climb the fifth floor, but a special method is needed, this method is to take the landlord to get the waist card, come to show the waist card after the door will greet a few VIPs upstairs please, few people go to the fifth floor on weekdays, must go through the waist card to get is not so simple. Today, the door shouted, all the little second brothers are different, tangled in who can get the favor of the landlord, just when everyone is thinking about it, I saw three people coming in from the door, dressed in ordinary coarse cloth and short beating, the appearance is not amazing, the leader of the person talks and laughs calmly but quite magnanimously, and the two people behind him look around with a cramped face!
A little second brother hurriedly greeted him and said, "Three VIPs, please come with me!" ”
The young man at the head nodded calmly and walked upstairs behind the little second brother, but the two who were looking around behind them didn't notice that their companions had followed the little second brother first, and when the two came back to their senses, they found that the little second brother had walked out with his companion ten steps away! The two hurriedly walked a few steps to catch up, and now everyone could see that these two people had never been in the world, and they could come here all because of this young man. After a moment of whispering, no one paid attention to the three.
As soon as the group of four people stepped on the fifth floor, they saw a young woman coming towards them, and the second brother turned to the three behind him and bowed down and said, "Three VIPs, the little one is brought here, and from then on, Miss Yihong will serve a few!" ”