The guy didn't notice anything unusual, he was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said a little strangely: "The shopkeeper Wang didn't do it here half a month ago, and he has already returned to his hometown in the countryside to enjoy happiness." ”

"What? People are gone? ”

Ran Qiunian couldn't help but blurt out, and then in the face of the puzzled eyes cast by the guy, she immediately changed her words and said: "I ordered jewelry at him before, and he said that he would find him next time, and he could arrange it for me in advance. ”

The guy immediately said: "So that's the case, the girl can remember when she set the jewelry, if there is a note in the account, this time you can order the jewelry, the small one can be arranged for you first." ”

Ran Qiunian didn't come here to order any jewelry, but Wen Yan just waved his hand with a lack of interest, and pulled Xiao Yin out of this shop.

"This shopkeeper Wang quit his errand in the jewelry shop half a month ago and went back to the countryside, why is it so sudden, the business of this jewelry shop looks very good, and being a shopkeeper here is not much better than living in the countryside, it's really strange."

Ran Qiunian couldn't help but say this, but Xiao Yin had other ideas, and said to her: "If what I expected is correct, I'm afraid that it won't help to find the other two guys now." ”

As Xiao Yin expected, in the next time, Ran Qiunian and Xiao Yin walked through the remaining two shops together, but the news they got was much the same.

"What? Our shopkeeper Li was drunk ten days ago and accidentally fell into a ditch and has been buried. ”

"Shopkeeper Zhao had a strange illness, spread out in bed for more than ten days, locked in the house by his idle cousin, starved to death, what a sin."

The remaining two guys have all died, and none of them have been spared, and the time of the accident is about the same, just ten days ago, which roughly coincides with the day when Ran Qiunian found more money.

This made Ran Qiunian a little creepy, all this coincidence was a little too deliberate, one person had an accident and could return it to the coincidence, but all three of them had an accident, and only the shopkeeper Wang who left the capital and returned to his hometown in the countryside one step ahead of time escaped.

"Big brother, this case doesn't seem simple, someone wants to stop us from investigating."

Ran Qiunian's words were exactly what Xiao Yin thought, this matter was extraordinary, it was very different from what he originally imagined, but it aroused his interest more and more.

"Now only the shopkeeper Wang, who has returned to his hometown, is still alive, and he suddenly decided to resign from his job as the shopkeeper and hurried back to the countryside, he must have already noticed something."

The worst result is that the king's shopkeeper fled to the countryside and failed to escape the scourge of death, but now there is no other clue, so he can only follow this only one first.

"Big brother, I'll go with you."

Ran Qiunian also wanted to help Xiao Yin, she had already reached this point, she was even more reluctant to give up halfway, and the truth of this matter would be found out as soon as possible, and she would have opened the shop with peace of mind.

"Okay, we can't hide the news of a few shopkeepers from these shops for a long time, if the people behind the scenes have the heart to pay attention, I'm afraid they will also think that we will start from the king's shopkeeper, and we need to find this king's shopkeeper as soon as possible."

Xiao Yin's words reminded Ran Qiunian, she nodded hurriedly, and the two of them turned around and returned to the carriage, and hurried along the hometown of the shopkeeper Wang who came out.

The king's treasurer lived on the outskirts of the city, and the carriage drove there, and it didn't take much effort, and soon they were there.

But the specific household where the shopkeeper Wang lived, even the guys in the jewelry store didn't know, so Ran Qiunian had to ask along the way with Xiao Yin.

This delayed a lot of time. Fortunately, because the shopkeeper of the king was a big shopkeeper in the capital, he was generous, and he was still a little famous in the village, and those villagers got the silver from Ran Qiunian, so they enthusiastically showed her the way.

With little effort, Ran Qiunian and Xiao Yin found the residence of the shopkeeper Wang in the countryside.

It is a tiled house surrounded by a wooden fence, which looks like it has been newly renovated, and it looks very spacious in the whole thatched village.

But it seems to be quiet and depressed, and it is not popular.

The wooden fence was tightly locked, and although the door on the house was not locked, the gate was also closed, and the window did not even reveal a gap, and Ran Qiunian didn't know for a while whether there was anyone or no one in the house.

"Shopkeeper Wang, are you in the house?"

Ran Qiu thought about it for a while, and asked directly.

She stood at the door for a while, but she didn't see a response from the house, so she glanced at Xiao Yin: "It seems that the shopkeeper Wang is no longer here." ”

They were still a step late, Ran Qiunian thought with some pity.

At this moment, the room suddenly creaked and someone pushed it open from the inside.

Ran Qiunian's eyes moved along with the voice, and he saw an old man coming out of the room tremblingly, holding a wooden stick, slowly walking towards Ran Qiunian's side.

"Old man, are you the family of the king's shopkeeper? We have something to do with him, I wonder if he is still in the house? ”

Ran Qiunian has always been polite to the old man, and when he saw that the old man was walking a little unsteadily, he raised his voice and asked, telling the old man not to rush over.

Who knows, when the old man heard Ran Qiunian's words, he seemed to be stimulated, picked up the branch in his hand, and waved it in front of Xiao Yin and Ran Qiunian, and kept scolding in his mouth:

"You group of executioners, my son doesn't want anything anymore, flee back to the countryside, just want to send me to the end, do your filial piety, do you have to kill them all, let the old woman and I send a white-haired person to a black-haired person at my age, and I can't close my eyes when I die? I'll kill you executioners! ”

The old man was already standing tremblingly, and at this time put all his strength on the wooden stick in his hand, although the strength was not heavy, and the accuracy was a little inaccurate, but in the words of crying blood, he clearly told the resentment in his heart.

Xiao Yin took Ran Qiunian and took a step back, blocking the person behind him, the old man's stick naturally failed, and her whole person also fell to the ground with the miss of this blow, and fell firmly.

"Old man!"

Ran Qiunian saw this scene from behind Xiao Yin, his eyes widened, and he shouted worriedly, although this old man beat and scolded them indiscriminately, but he couldn't pose any threat to them.

This bluffing appearance was even more pitiful in Ran Qiunian's eyes, because of her grandmother, she had a natural sympathy for most of the old people, seeing this old man fall to the ground, she didn't care that she would be angry with her, she took a few steps forward and walked out from behind Xiao Yin.

"Be careful." Xiao Yin was afraid that Ran Qiunian would be injured, so she hurriedly followed and helped the old man who fell to the ground with her.

"Don't think that if you please me, you will be able to find out the whereabouts of my son, even if I am killed on the ground, I will never let you succeed."

Although the old man fell and couldn't move, he was still chattering and unwilling to give in.

Ran Qiunian's eyes softened, and she followed her words: "Yes, yes, we don't ask you, whether you want to say it or not, it's up to you." ”

Xiao Yin helped Ran Qiunian into the house, found the old man's bed, and put the person on it.

Walking into the house, Ran Qiunian found that this place was very different from what she imagined.

From the outside, this house is a rare blue brick and tiled house in the village, and it is very generous, but after entering the house, I find that it looks like an empty shelf inside, and there is almost nothing.

And the things thrown everywhere on the ground make the whole house messy, and it is not as neat and clean as the thatched houses of ordinary people.

Combined with what the old man said, Ran Qiunian guessed that someone had come to find the shopkeeper before, and even used a killer, but for some reason it didn't work, and the shopkeeper must still be alive.

It's just that I haven't been home for a long time, and there is only one elderly person at home who is inconvenient to walk, so I naturally don't pay attention to tidying up the house on weekdays, and I don't have the ability to tidy up the house.

Originally, Ran Qiunian and Xiao Yin went all the way to find the truth of the matter that the shopkeeper Wang interrogated him, but who knew that he almost made the old man angry if he didn't find it.

If Ran Qiunian was asked to ignore the old man's body and bones, and coerced and enticed to continue to ask, she would not be able to do it.

Xiao Yin is even more so, he was instructed to come over on an errand, and he was a little unbearable to let him interrogate an innocent old man.

The two reached a consensus that this was the end of today's matter, and they could find another way to find out the whereabouts of the king's shopkeeper, so as not to embarrass this innocent poor old man.

"You really don't ask anything?"

Seeing that Ran Qiunian and Xiao Yin finished talking, they really didn't ask anything more, but talked about it and asked some common words, and the old man was a little surprised.

But she hadn't spoken to anyone for too long, and the torment of being alone at home and worrying about her son's unknown fate almost crushed the old man.

Seeing that Ran Qiunian and Xiao Yin really didn't ask anything, and they didn't want to be as fierce as the group of people who came before, they let go of their defenses a little.

"Have you had lunch? I see that your legs and feet are inconvenient, I'm afraid it's not good to make a stove fire on weekdays, how to solve the problem of drinking water and eating every day? ”

Ran Qiunian couldn't help but ask curiously, and at the same time he freed his hand and simply cleaned up the things in the old man's house.

She is not really Miss Jiao who does not touch the spring water with her fingers, and she can do these simple housework well.

"Eat, I still have half a box of potatoes and corn in my house, and when I am hungry, I will nibble two on the well water, which is enough, I am old and useless, and I can live one day at a time, and I don't know if I will ever see my miserable child again."

The old man became a little sad as he spoke.

"You use these on weekdays?" Ran Qiunian walked to the corner, bent down to pick up a dirty potato, and said in amazement.