At noon, Qin Lin invited everyone to have a full meal in Yuejiang Building, and then the Liu family father and son went back to tinker with special tools for making pencils and recruit carpenter apprentices, Han Feilian and Zhao Yiming went home respectively, and Cui Zhutou and Niu Dali accompanied Qin Lin to buy the shop at the crossroads.

On the way, Cui Zhutou introduced that the owner of this dim sum shop is called Wei Asi, who is from Jiangxi, and the snow cream and mung bean cake he makes taste very good. In the past two years, Wei Asi has suffered from asthma and distress, and has been lying in bed for many years, becoming a medicine jar, thanks to the support of Xuehua's sister-in-law.

In the end, providence makes people, after two years of lingering sickness, Wei Asi finally died last night, and Xuehua's sister-in-law wanted to leave the store in order to let her husband return to his roots, so as to help the coffin return to his hometown.

The door of the dim sum shop was closed, and Cui Zhutou volunteered to step forward and slam the door.

"Uncle Cui, but what happened to the little widow?" A man with a black mole on his chin walked over and asked.

"It's Boss Xie, what are you talking about?" Cui Zhutou was inexplicable: "We are here to buy a store." ”

Boss Xie was stunned, and walked away with a smile: "Oh, I misunderstood, I should be ......"

The door finally opened, and Sister-in-law Xuehua was dressed in white and filial piety, coupled with snow-white skin, it was really white from head to toe, but it was a pity that her facial features were very ordinary, and she was just a middle-aged person.

Xuehua's sister-in-law was blessed, and asked expressionlessly: "Is this dad the head of Cui in the state?" Is there something wrong with finding a little woman? ”

Cui Zhutou introduced Qin Lin and explained his intentions.

Hearing that she was going to buy a house, Sister-in-law Xuehua was a little more enthusiastic and led everyone around.

Qin Lin saw a black coffin parked in the hall, it must be this dead man, an old woman cried in front of the spirit, incinerated the paper money into the brazier, and two children accompanied her, the male was five or six years old, and the female was only three or four years old, and they didn't seem to be sad, maybe they didn't know the boundary between life and death when they were young.

This is a typical courtyard house, a row of three houses in front of the front is the shop facing the cross street of the Yamen, there are two wings in the east and west, plus three main houses, around the atrium about three or four feet long and wide small courtyard.

"The pattern is still good," Qin Lin nodded, "It's a pity that it's a little smaller, and if you set up the workshop here, it won't be enough to expand the scale a little in the future." ”

Cui Zhutou smiled: "Haha, Qin Gongzi's heart is very high!" If he could buy Boss Xie's house, it would be enough - but he wouldn't sell it. ”

Qin Lin hurriedly asked what was going on.

It turns out that Sister-in-law Xuehua's house is close to Boss Xie, and the yard of Sister-in-law Xuehua is square, and Boss Jie's house is in the shape of a curved ruler, which is two or three times larger, and this small yard is two breads. The shape of the two houses is almost in the shape of "Tian" on the map, the one under the word Tian is adjacent to the State Ya Street, and the small courtyard where they are now is the grid in the lower left corner of the word "Tian", and the house of the boss Xie is the other three grids.

But the shop on the street is far more expensive than the ordinary housing that is not on the street, although the area of the house is three times that of the Xuehua sister-in-law's house, the street shop is only the same three, the Xuehua sister-in-law's small courtyard is worth a hundred taels of silver, and the three-fold house is only worth one hundred and fifty taels of silver, if Qin Lin buys it, it will be very convenient for the pencil workshop to expand the scale, and the price is also affordable.

"But Boss Xie won't sell, he has lived here for decades, how could he suddenly sell it?" Cui Zhutou smiled, saw that Sister-in-law Xuehua was not beside him, and said to Qin Lin in a low voice: "Don't look at the small courtyard where we are standing, if it weren't for Wei Asi's sudden death, Sister-in-law Xuehua would have to help the coffin back to her hometown, and she couldn't easily buy it!" ”

Cui Zhutou has the meaning of showing merit, of course, Qin Lin also knows the truth of what he said, the Ming Dynasty has been established for two hundred years, Jinghu has been peaceful for a long time, the Yangtze River waterway connects Bashu in the west and goes down to the south of the Yangtze River in the east, commerce and trade are becoming prosperous, and housing prices are also rising.

So Qin Lin was going to buy this shop first, and if he wanted to expand the scale in the future, he had to talk about it in the future, anyway, he had all the ready-made silver with him.

Sister-in-law Xuehua arched her hand, Qin Lin probably knew the rules of talking to the widow at this time, and stood far away and asked, "Sister-in-law, how much silver is prepared to sell in this courtyard?" ”

If it is a regular market, bargaining has to "pull hands", that is, two people secretly pull their fingers to compare the price with their sleeves, and they can't say it with their mouths; In addition, there is also a fang Yazi of the tooth shop who is a middleman, draws transaction fees, and then copies the foundation to the yamen for archiving.

Of course, now that this set is saved, the little widow will never hold hands with others, and there are Cui Zhutou and Niu Dali, two leading figures in the yamen, as middlemen, and which room teeth are needed to make noise?

Sister-in-law Xuehua looked at Qin Lin: "The real price is eighty taels, and I want to cash in silver, and the little woman helps her husband's coffin to return to her hometown for burial, but she doesn't have to wait too long." ”

"Full of real gold, like a fake." Qin Lin laughed, untied the wrapper and took out ten taels of gold bills, he didn't know what the house price was at this time, so he bargained: "However, can the price be lowered a little bit more, sister-in-law?" ”

Sister-in-law Xuehua shook her head and sighed: "The little woman is in a hurry to return to her hometown for burial, and the price is extremely low. ”

Before she finished speaking, she heard a commotion outside, and Xuehua's sister-in-law walked out angrily, saying as she walked: "Come to make trouble again, can't I hide if I can't provoke it?" I'm going to help the coffin back to my hometown, and I'm going to pester......"

Qin Lin and the others also followed behind to see what was going on.

Unexpectedly, the people who stood on the ground outside, first were the Hu Si officials in the torture room, and then Jiao Qizuo and several fast arresters, and finally a cool sedan chair, and the attendant lifted the sedan curtain, and Zhang Gongyu was coming out of it.

Qin Lin secretly laughed at this confused Zhizhou shelf, it was still quite big, the yamen was just a few steps away from here, and he still had to sit in a sedan chair, and he had the time to get up and down the sedan chair, but he was afraid that he would walk much faster.

Zhang Gongyu was stunned at first when he saw Qin Lin, Niu Dali, and Cui Zhutou, and then said happily: "It turns out that you are faster than this official, and Niu and Cui are really diligent. ”

Knowing that Zhang Gongyu had misunderstood, Qin Lin didn't reveal it, Niu Dali wanted to say something, but he was pulled by Cui Zhutou in the back, and he stopped talking when he woke up.

"Come on, lock up the prisoner!" Zhang Gongyu gave an order, and several official media women came up and caught Xuehua's sister-in-law and prevented her from escaping.

Sister-in-law Xuehua was frightened, and was stunned for a moment before crying: "I don't know what law the women have violated, the eldest lord wants to arrest the women......"

Zhang Gongyu snorted coldly in his nose, and waved his sleeves: "You know what you do yourself!" With that, he led people into the courtyard.

Cui Zhutou hurriedly asked what was going on with the catcher under his hand, and quickly figured out the situation.

It turned out that just before a pillar of incense, the head of the undertaker, Zhou Donkey, went to the state government to make a head, saying that Wei Asi died suddenly yesterday, and he was called by Xuehua's sister-in-law to decorate the funeral for her husband, but he didn't expect the dead corpse to be blue and black, his expression was hideous, and there was arsenic in his mouth, so he didn't dare to hide it, and went to the yamen to report Xuehua's sister-in-law for murdering her husband.

Qin Lin was helpless when he heard it: Okay, just now I said that this courtyard is a little smaller, and now the crime of murdering his husband has emerged, and he doesn't even have to buy a small courtyard.

Cui Zhutou was busy greeting his boss Zhang Gongyu, Niu Dali's strong squad was mainly patrolling the streets to maintain order, and it had little to do with the murder, so he had been standing by Qin Lin's side, seeing Qin Lin sullen, he rubbed his hands and smiled: "Engong is afraid that he won't be able to buy this house?" ”

Qin Lin nodded, just about to buy a store, it was really unlucky that such a thing happened.

"In fact, after the murder of Xuehua's sister-in-law, Engong will not delay in buying the yard, and he can spend less silver - after Master Zhang confiscated the criminal's property, this yard will be sold by the official family, you go to the Hu Si Official, and buy it for a few taels of silver, because he didn't take away his position as a priest at the beginning, and the Hu Si Priest has been telling me that he wants to repay you."

After Niu Dali finished speaking, there was still a more honest smile on his honest face, but Qin Lin was already speechless: Yamen is really a big dye vat, Niu Dali, this kid is a bad learner......

Zhang Gongyu ordered someone to lift the lid of the coffin, and when everyone saw the corpse, they let out a low cry, and sure enough, the corpse was blue and black, and the facial muscles were distorted, looking very much like the struggle when the poison hair died.

"Phew!" Zhang Gongyu broke off his drink, pointed at Xuehua's sister-in-law and said, "Your husband looks like this, and he said that he was not poisoned?" ”

Sister-in-law Xuehua was so frightened that she kowtowed again and again: "Master Mingjian, my husband has distress and asthma, and as long as the illness worsens, it is like this, and the women don't think it's strange!" ”

The old woman was Wei Asi's mother, but she stood on the side of her daughter-in-law, dragged her two grandsons, and said beside her: "So that the eldest master can know that my son usually gets sick like this, and it is not like this after death." ”

Zhang Gongyu choked for a moment, and began to be unsure again.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Qin Lin.

What do you want me to do? Don't look, I'm not there! Qin Lin tried to dodge, but a man like him, no matter where he was, was like a firefly in the dark, so distinct, so outstanding, his melancholy eyes, his sparse chatter, and his divine knife skills all made him the focus of the murder scene.

"Okay, Master Zhang, I'll serve you!" Qin Lin despised Zhang Gongyu fiercely in his heart, and then stepped forward to take a closer look.

The deceased Wei Ah Si's face was blue, his lips, fingernails and toenails were also a little bruised, and the corpse's face was slightly swollen, if Wei Ah Si was a healthy person before his death, Qin Lin could almost immediately conclude that he died of lack of oxygen in his body or was eroded by some kind of poison.

But he is not, family members and neighbors, including Xuehua's sister-in-law, can prove that the deceased has suffered from asthma and distress for a long time, which is a serious heart attack in terms that Qin Lin knows.

Due to poor blood circulation, the blood oxygen cannot be supplied to the body in time, and the physical symptoms of severe hypoxia may be present when dying, resulting in blue lips and nails; At the same time, due to the circulatory disorder of the cardiovascular system, the venous blood flow in the head and face area is blocked, and the blood accumulation in the head and face will also cause edema.

In other words, although the deceased showed signs similar to poisoning, it could be a normal death for a person with a serious heart attack.