Chapter 2: Drumming
Cheng Xiang groaned slightly, and then thought of a good idea, he quickly changed his police uniform with the official's uniform, moved the official's body behind the table to block it, walked to the door and listened to the fact that there was no movement outside, then pulled out the latch, pulled a crack first, looked at no one outside, probed out, and shouted: "Hey! Shop small two! Shop small two! ”
Someone downstairs said loudly, "It's coming!" He heard the stairs clatter, and he quickly closed the door. Hearing the footsteps, he came to the door, knocked on it, and shouted, "Master! Is there something wrong with you? ”
This voice was a little impatient, which made him a little strange, why did the shopkeeper talk to the official like this? He snorted and said, "Get me a basin of hot water and find a razor!" ”
"Oh!" The shopkeeper agreed, turned around to leave, thought about it, came back again, and said, "Razor? We don't have razors here! ”
"Go find one!"
"Where can I find this black light? This is a thing that can only be found in temples! ”
That's right, it's not that you have traveled to the braid dynasty, and you need to shave your yin and yang heads. Except for monks and nuns in the Song Dynasty, everyone had their hair and beard, and it was useless to razor it, but it was not only in temples.
He changed his tune and said, "Then find me a pair of scissors!" ”
"Okay!" The shopkeeper muttered in a low voice, "I can't afford to pay for the house, and there are still a lot of problems!" He walked away.
Although the words of the shopkeeper were light, Leng Yi still heard it, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, this county has no money to pay rent? Isn't that chest full of a small box of silver ingots?
Soon, the shopkeeper came up with a basin of water and a pair of scissors, and said lazily at the door: "Bring it, open the door!" ”
"Just leave it at the door!"
Boom! The shopkeeper put a basin of water on the floor outside the door, threw the scissors into the basin, and turned to leave.
Leng Yi heard that there was no sound outside, so he gently opened the door and brought in a wooden basin of water and scissors. He tied the door again, then cut the corpse's hair to the ground, and then cut his own hair in pieces.
Then, he opened the window and looked, but the backyard was still quiet in the cold winter, and there was no figure in sight.
He tied the official with his belt and hung him down from the window. Then he went down himself, carried the corpse on his back, took the belt and went under the wall, climbed up himself, and then pulled the body up and put it outside the wall. Then jump off the wall and look left and right, there is no one. Carrying the body on his back, he came to a crooked tree in the corner of a dark house not far away.
He grabbed a handful of dirt, smeared the corpse's face in a mess, gave the corpse a few punches in the face, ruined the appearance, and saw that there was no one around again, then he flew the belt over a diagonal branch, found a stone, stepped on it, compared the height of the official's neck, tied the belt in a knot, and then picked up the corpse, let the head get in, put it down gently, and then saw that the original strangulation marks coincided with the belt, and then kicked the stone away.
This place is very hidden, you can't see it until you get close, and it is a cold winter night, so it is estimated that no one will find it if you hang it overnight.
Looking at the corpse, he folded his hands and muttered a prayer in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I'm offended, I really can't help you like this." - Don't worry! I swear to you, I have replaced you, and I will definitely complete the road of life for you, I will take good care of your relatives, and do my filial piety for you, please bless me in the spirit of heaven! ”
With that, he bowed respectfully.
Seeing that there was no one, he came to the place where he had first crouched, climbed up a large tree by the side of the road, and took out a suitcase from a large bird's nest near the treetops. It was brought with him when he crossed over, and he hid it here when he was about to steal clothes. He took his suitcase down the tree and climbed over the wall back to the inn.
He stood by the window, looked back at the place where the body was hanging, and in the darkness of the night, he couldn't see anything, so he closed the window with confidence.
He put the box under the bed, went behind the door, pulled the latch of the door, returned to the table, looked at the hair on the floor, put his finger in the teacup and dipped it, and wiped it from the corner of his eye. With a grin, he cried loudly at the top of his throat.
This cry is really earth-shattering, although it doesn't rain when it thunders, but the sadness of this cry even moved him, and he couldn't imagine that he still has this kind of talent for acting.
Soon, the door was pushed open, and it was a middle-aged man who rushed in, seeing Leng Yi, with a stunned and unbelievable expression on his face, as if he had seen something unbelievable in the world. Although this expression was only for a moment, it was seen by Leng Yi, because he needed to pay attention to everyone's reaction to the pretending Zhixian to him.
Does this middle-aged man's expression mean that he has failed to pretend to be something? Leng Yi chuckled in his heart.
Immediately afterwards, another person came in, but it was the old man he had seen from the window before, who was accompanying the magistrate. As soon as the old man entered the door, he saw Leng Yi holding a pair of scissors in his hand, and he was clicking and cutting his hair, and the hair on his head had been cut like a bald tail quail.
The old man couldn't help but be shocked, hurriedly came up, snatched the scissors from his hand, stomped his feet and said, "Dong Weng! What are you doing? ”
Leng Yi glanced at him, and saw in the old man's eyes that he was stunned because he cut his hair, but he did not have the wrong appearance and was confused, and a big stone in his heart suddenly put down. It seems that he was very successful in pretending, and even this person who was next to the magistrate just now didn't find anything wrong.
But why did the middle-aged man who rushed in first look at him in astonishment? Did he see a flaw? Leng Yi hurriedly looked at the door, and at this time, a few more tourists came to watch the excitement, but the middle-aged man who came first was gone.
Leng Yi didn't dare to look around, so he could only pretend to be sad with his head down and wipe his tears. Let's take a look at the movement first, at least the old man who followed the county didn't see the flaws. Now it's up to you to see if there's something wrong with your voice. He just lowered his head to wipe away his tears, until the innkeeper, the shopkeeper, and some travelers came to see the excitement, then he raised his head and sighed, and said: "I have lived in vain for more than 20 years, and I ...... it, alas! ”
The old man said, "Why is Dong Weng here?!" It's just a momentary disappointment. ”
Listening to the old man's voice, he didn't look suspicious, Leng Yi was relieved again, and his voice seemed to be not much different from that of Zhixian. couldn't help but sigh again: "Alas! It's not just a temporary disappointment, think about it, it's better to cut your hair and become a monk and take refuge in Buddhism!
The old man hurriedly said: "This is wrong, our case still has a three-day grace period, and the case may not be unsolved!" Besides, even if it can't be broken, if you stand up to the sky, you will just be dismissed and return to your hometown, and you won't be a monk! ”
Solve a case? Leng Yi's heart moved, this is his own business! Three days left to solve the case? It's short, but it's not impossible. It depends on the case.
The shopkeeper who had given him something before had a horse's face, and whispered to the innkeeper and the people around him: "No wonder he asked me to help him find a razor to shave his head, I was still thinking strange, how could I do this thing in a good way, but it turned out that I wanted to become a monk!" ”
A guy said: "If you want to become a monk, you should also ask the abbot of the temple to shave, why did you cut a mess yourself?" ”
The shopkeeper reprimanded: "What do you know, this is called cutting the invention will!" It's just that I've already made up my mind to become a monk. ”
The horse-faced Xiao Er whispered to the shopkeeper: "We can't take care of him if he can't get out of the house, in the past few months, he owes us so much money for the house and food, but we have to let him settle it first, otherwise, he will be six clean, and we will have nothing to lose!" ”
The shopkeeper nodded, wondering how to ask for the account.
The old man then persuaded Leng Yi and said: "Dong Weng, you can't figure it out, you are now a parent official, a Qipin county order, how many years of hard work in the cold window have been boiled step by step until now, how can you shake your hands and cut your home?" What do you make your parents back home? Your wife, who has knotted hair, is still waiting for you to go back in the yamen at the moment! As soon as you slap your ass out of the house, they don't know how sad they will be! ”
Parents? Wife?
Does this county have parents in their hometown, and a wife in the county government? It's easy to deceive others, if you want to deceive your parents and deceive this married wife who shares the same bed, I'm afraid it's very difficult. Parents are in their hometown, and it's not a problem in front of them, but how can this wife be deceived? Leng Yi was a little drumming in his heart.