Chapter 172: Asking for Favors
On the second day, Master Gu came to the dyeing workshop early in the morning, thinking about the dye he boiled out yesterday, and wanted to test the effect, but found that the door of the dyeing workshop was pried open.
He was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly ran into the courtyard, and when he saw that the door of the inner room was also pried open, his heart was half cold, and he hurriedly went in to check, and the recipe was really gone, and even the dye base he had put up the day before yesterday was gone.
Master Gu was struck by lightning, he felt that he had failed Miss Lin's expectations, but he soon relieved himself and immediately rushed to Lin Jiu's house.
Because I don't know when the thief stole Fang Zi, but with Miss Lin's magical powers, maybe she can recover it.
Lin Jiu had been following the little worker yesterday, but before he woke up this morning, he was woken up by Master Gu's fire, and when he heard his words, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly.
Master Gu was a little blindsided with laughter, could it be that the girl was stimulated when she heard about the theft of Fangzi.
Noticing that Master Gu's face changed for a while, and when he finally looked at him, he felt more guilty and the love of his elders, Lin Jiu was suddenly a little speechless, so he asked, "Master Gu, when you went to the dyeing workshop today, you saw your little apprentice. ”
Because he was in too much of a hurry before, Master Gu didn't think of anything else, and when he was mentioned by Lin Jiu at this time, he really felt a little abnormal.
Because in the past, his little apprentice would go to the dyeing workshop early to do the chores well.
However, because Master Gu trusted him completely, he still opened his mouth to help him explain: "Maybe this kid slept late yesterday and couldn't get up today." ”
Lin Jiu didn't speak, just looked straight at him, with some penetrating sharpness in his eyes.
Lin Jiu was a little flustered when he saw it, and an idea came to his heart, but he hurriedly shook his head vigorously and threw this idea out of his mind: "The girl suspects that he stole the recipe, this is absolutely impossible, my apprentice has always been well-behaved and timid, and he will never do such a thing." ”
"I advise Master Gu to go to the official first, and then find the person." Lin Jiu was really too lazy to deal with him, thinking about last night's arrangement, and directly instructed him without much explanation.
"Reporter? Girl, is this sure that he stole the recipe? "Master Gu can't accept it.
"If someone is lost, don't you go to the police to look for it?" Lin Jiu got up directly and went back to the room, leaving Master Gu alone in the courtyard.
Seeing this, Master Gu had no choice but to leave.
The Zhao family also heard about the theft of the dyeing workshop, and with her worrying temperament, Lin Jiu naturally couldn't avoid being nagged.
The Zhao family thought that since the recipe was stolen, it would be better to close the dyeing workshop, they would definitely not be able to fight the rich people in the town.
Compared with Master Gu, Lin Jiu was still very patient with Zhao, and carefully comforted him for a few words before he said that he was hungry and asked Zhao to cook a bowl of noodles for her.
Zhao also knew that Lin Jiu couldn't listen to his words, so he could only sigh and leave Lin Jiu's house.
When Han Jia'er didn't have a task, she followed Lin Jiu's side to protect herself, for Zhao's imagination of Lin Jiu's weak chicken, Han Jia'er was very helpless, and she couldn't understand that her pavilion master was obviously so wise and powerful, and he broke into the killer's lair alone, without showing fear, why couldn't he deal with so many small businessmen, but she naturally didn't say this.
Master Gu did not go directly to report to the official, but went to the little apprentice's house first.
But when he got there, he found that the door was closed, and the conversation between him and Lin Jiu just now resurfaced, and when he was anxious, Master Gu smashed open the door and rushed in, searching inside and outside the house, but he didn't find the shadow of the little apprentice.
At this time, Master Gu was a little panicked, and he was busy asking the neighbors, but they all said that it was not dark last night, and the little apprentice came back and had never been out.
It's just a small worker with no power or power, Ma Baoqi doesn't take it to heart, he just tells the catcher to help find a look, but that's enough.
Last night, after Lin Jiu waited for the two guards to leave, he summoned two killers from Ling Shangge, and asked them to pretend to be fishermen from other places the next morning, fish here, pretend to be accidental, and then take them to report to the official.
In this way, an unknown corpse and a missing person are confronted.
In the afternoon, Master Gu was arrested quickly and brought to the county government to identify the body, and when he saw the pale and wet corpse, Master Gu's eyes turned red.
Although the body had confirmed my identity, an autopsy revealed that the cause of death was not drowning, but poisoning, which turned the case into a vicious homicide.
In the morning, when Ling Shangge's killer reported to the official, the matter was in an uproar, and almost all the people in the town knew that someone had fished out a corpse from the Xia Wei River, and if the results of the autopsy were publicized, Ma Baoqi's road to promotion would be far away, so he was worried.
The news also reached Mrs. Hu, she hurriedly rushed to the county office, and told Liu Qin about the matter, if it was as usual, Ma Baoqi would not embarrass her because of this relationship, but this time the trouble was so big, Ma Baoqi was so angry that he refused to help her anymore.
Mrs. Hu said that Ma Baoqi was a little relieved, and took the opportunity to knock on Mrs. Hu, so she agreed to suppress the matter.
The yamen claimed that after further autopsy, it was found that the person was in a coma caused by food poisoning and died by accidentally falling into the water, and did not mention anything about the sack.
Lin Jiu really admired their hand, but Lin Jiu didn't plan to use this matter to bring down Mrs. Hu, so he didn't entangle it anymore.
Master Gu retrieved the body of the little apprentice from the Yamen, and spent some money to find someone to send him back to his hometown, and then came to Lin Jiu's house again.
He was very sad: "Girl, the person is dead, I don't know where to recover?" ”
"What do you do when you chase it back?" Lin Jiu's face didn't matter, "I just let him steal it on purpose." ”
After hearing this, Master Gu was a little incompetent, Lin Jiu was powerless to complain when he saw his appearance, and didn't want to explain to him any more, so he said: "Our dyeing workshop needs to be closed for a few days, Master Gu will go home to rest, and the salary will be paid, and when it opens again, I will choose a small worker for you, and you don't have to worry about other things." ”
After speaking, without waiting for him to reply, he sent the person away directly.
On Mrs. Hu's side, although she suffered an accident, fortunately, the recipe was still in her hands, and the dyeing workshop was still lively while organizing the dyeing master to boil the dye, and at the same time, she was very proud to learn that Lin Jiu had closed the cloth workshop.
The dye master knew that this recipe was not ordinary, so he naturally treated it solemnly and strictly followed the steps on the recipe, so on the second day, the first vat of dye was made.
Mrs. Hu couldn't wait, and came to the dyeing workshop early in the morning, staring at the movements of the dyeing master with a wrong eye.
Watching him put the white fabric into the dye vat, Mrs. Hu even had a picture in her mind that the customers came to the store to grab it, but when the master took the fabric out of the dye vat, he found that something was wrong.
Because the color on the fabric was uneven, it looked very mottled, and the whole color state was like the work of a fledgling dyer, but for him, such a thing could not have happened.
So after putting down the dyeing cloth, the master took out the recipe again, looked at it carefully, and after checking it, he knew that his steps were not wrong, and he had more doubts in his heart, and this recipe might be fake.
But he couldn't bear to say this sentence at the burning gaze of Madame Shanghu on the side, so he asked the worker to dry the mottled cloth first to see what it would look like when it was dry.
Mrs. Hu has been in the cloth business for so many years, so naturally she will not understand nothing, looking at the freshly dyed fabric, her brows furrowed deeply.
Seeing this, the master had no choice but to comfort him: "This color is light, maybe it will be different after drying, please wait patiently." ”
Hearing this, Mrs. Hu's face was slightly better, but the worry in her heart was not less at all.
After she got the recipe, she was a little fluttering, just yesterday, the owners of two small cloth shops came to order from her, and mentioned the beautiful cloth that Chen Nong had sold to them before.
The regret hidden in their words made Mrs. Hu very annoyed, and she didn't hold back for a while, so she leaked out the things she had already gotten to that recipe.
When the two of them heard this, they were overjoyed, so they directly ordered twenty pieces of cloth from Mrs. Hu, and Mrs. Hu naturally agreed with a smile and signed a contract with them.