Early the next morning, Jian Qing was about to go to the yamen, but Zhao Er didn't get up in bed.

Before she went out, Jian Qing met Yu Bai who was walking in front, she went up to greet her again and asked, "Have you had breakfast?" Why don't I invite my eldest brother to breakfast? ”

Yu Bai glanced at her lightly again, and without saying a word, he turned to the left and went to Xiejiabuzhuang.

Jian Qing didn't care, she found a roadside stall, asked for a bowl of tofu brain, two fritters, and ate it hot.

He Jiu didn't come today.

Zeng Zuochao arranged for Jian Qing to go with the magistrate to investigate the case. The magistrate is an old man in his fifties, named He Keli.

As soon as he got out of the yamen, he called a sedan chair and carried it all the way to Jiangning County. When he arrived at the silk shop, He Keli asked people to put the sedan chair on the side of the road, and he didn't get off the sedan chair, but sat in it, and asked the officials to ask about the case, and he didn't say anything, let it play.

Jian Qing didn't bother to care, she entered the silk shop, the boss died, and the shopkeeper was still there, an old man in his sixties.

Jian Qing handed him a bag of shortbread and said, "The crispy Qingzhai next to it is newly baked, uncle, you can taste it!" ”

Since ancient times, reaching out and not hitting smiling people, let alone a teenager who gives gifts to himself.

The old man pinched a piece from the goodness, put it to his mouth and took a bite, sure enough, it was just baked, fragrant, crispy, and very crispy, especially delicious, for a while, the mood was very happy, the old man nodded, "Delicious, it is the taste of crisp Qingzhai." Young man, you are so attentive, do you want to come to me for a job? To tell you the truth, something happened to our store, and it's hard to say what will happen in the future, if you want to find a job, you can go and see other stores. ”

"I have someone I know who is the director of the largest restaurant in the city, why don't I introduce you to be a junior there?"

Jian Qing was overjoyed when he heard this, "Okay, thank you, uncle." However, your store is very good, and it is close to where I live, so what happened will I not be able to say in the future? ”

"Above, the owner, it's gone!" The shopkeeper lowered his voice, said quietly, and after speaking, he pinched another piece and ate it.

"How did it go?" Jian Qing was naturally interested, and his eyes flashed with the light of gossip, shiny, which especially stimulated people's desire to talk.

"That was a month ago, it was very late that day, and the owner was alone in the back yard to settle accounts, and there was no one around. When the owner settles accounts, he doesn't like people next to him. After about half an hour, how sooner or later will the wife call someone to find the owner? As a result, no one answered when I shouted at the door, and when I opened the door, the owner was lying on the table, and there was a big blood pit on the back of his head, which scared people. ”

Jian Qing seemed to be frightened, she stood stunned for a long time, and asked, "That, who did it?" ”

"Who knows?" The shopkeeper probably remembered the scene at that time, and his heart was palpitating, and even the shortbread was not fragrant, "The yamen has also come to ask several times, and the wife of the owner can't remember what kind of enemy she has provoked. ”

"It's weird, but even if it's a murderer, there's a saying about picking people to kill. Was the owner of this shop originally from Jinling City? ”

"yes."

Jian Qing was surprised, and asked, "You grew up in Jinling City since you were a child?" ”

The shopkeeper shook his head, "I don't know, I heard about entering Sichuan when I was young." However, this is all I have heard occasionally, once, I came to a medicinal herb merchant in Sichuan and Shu, and I heard them talk about what happened in Sichuan and Shu at the beginning, and it sounded like they had been there for several years. ”

Jian Qing took this to heart, and the servants asked the maid who was the first to find the deceased that day about the situation, came out of the backyard, and shouted at Jian Qing to go out quickly, and Jian Qing followed the officials out of the door.

Because of the first day of taking office, Jian Qing's fart followed behind He Keli's sedan chair. Who knows, he asked people to carry him to a small restaurant, and dispersed Jian Qing and them, "Go your own way, and come back to pick up the official later." ”

Jian Qing was a little stunned, didn't he say that Emperor Jiayou was very strict with the officials below? What about now?

Jian Qing couldn't wait and went to the crude medicine shop by himself. The second deceased was the shopkeeper of the crude medicine shop, and the shopkeeper of the silk shop, who was about forty years old, was also cut off on the back of the head with an axe.

The deceased drank too much wine that night and stayed alone in a side room in front of him, where he often settled accounts on weekdays, similar to a study of a scholar, and often took a nap here at noon.

Early in the morning, the subordinates of the family saw that their master had not gotten up, so they came to knock on the door, and as a result, the door opened as soon as they knocked. Inside, the upper body of the deceased was lying on the bed, a hideous bloody wound on the back of his head, blood flowed all over the bed, dripping to the ground, the smell of blood all over the house, that tragic scene, it was simply soul-shattering.

Jian Qing got acquainted with the guy grinding the medicine in the crude medicine shop, and the two asked for two dishes and two small wines in the tavern next to them, chatting while eating.

Even though he talked about such a tragic scene, it did not affect the young man's appetite, "I thought at the time, why didn't the owner bring the night pot in last night, and didn't stay up all night?" As a result, Brother Chun pushed the door open, and oh my God, we were all about to faint. Brother Chun reacted quickly, pushed me, and told me to hurry to the yamen to report the case. ”

"Is your host at odds with someone?"

"No, the owner is very friendly in business, sometimes when you are seriously ill and have no money, you will be exempted from the consultation fee, and the medicine money will be collected casually, we all say, this is really not long-sighted, good people are not rewarded."

"Has your host ever been in Sichuan and Shu?" Jian Qing asked.

"I haven't heard of it."

Jian Qing was stunned for a moment, "Doesn't anyone who is generally in the pharmacy business have to enter Sichuan and Shu?" A lot of medicinal herbs have to come in from there, what a Sichuan dome, a Sichuan shell, and so on. ”

Jian Qing didn't know much about traditional Chinese medicine, so he said these two types, which made the little guy laugh, "It's not necessarily Chuanbei, the one over there is called Chuanbei, for example, the Chuanqiong you said is also called Fuqiong, Guizhou, Yunnan also has it, but the medicinal effect of Sichuan is better." ”

"Yes, if your host doesn't go, who will?"

"Sometimes it's the big shopkeeper who goes, sometimes someone over there sends it, and in short, I have to go back and forth twice a year."

"Will someone send it over there in Sichuan? Who is it? ”

The young man was a little wary, "What are you asking so much for?" The business of this crude medicine shop is not so easy to do, and there is a lot of capital. ”

Speaking of this, the young man's gossip was moved, and he lowered his voice and said to Jian Qingdao, "I heard that our owner also made a windfall back then, so he could afford to open this crude medicine shop." ”