"This is it!" Xing Ruyi took a few steps back, pointing to the floor that had obviously been pried under the bed slats.

"Stand back!" Chang Tai took out the dagger and pried up the wooden planks one by one along the gaps in the wooden planks, revealing the ground that had been renovated not long ago. The ground was a little damp and there were a lot of flies around it.

"Shengdemei."

"It's coming!" Xiao Shengzi glanced at it, rubbed his palms, picked up the shovel that was on the side and planed it a few times, revealing a corner of the wooden box under the planed soil: "Brother Chang, look, this really makes the torture shopkeeper right." There's something buried under this bed. ”

"This is the inn and the furnishings of each room should be about the same. There are two wooden boxes in the No. 2 and No. 3 rooms, one is for the guests to put clothes, and the other is for the guests to put quilts. Only in this Tianzi No. 1 room, there is a wooden box missing. Before going upstairs, I checked the store's records. This Tianzi No. 1 room is registered for long-term rental, and the tenant has an explanation, and the inn guy is not allowed to help clean the room. ”

"That's all the shopkeeper relies on?"

"Of course not. Generally speaking, the guests staying at the inn, even if they have been staying here for a long time, will not do anything. Unless the guest has something unsightly to see and is worried that the guy who is being cleaned will find out the clues. Or the guest has a special status and doesn't like others to touch their own things at will. This Tianzi room is the most luxurious and expensive room in the Yuelai Inn, and it is not cheap to rent it all year round. ”

"It's not cheap, the price of renting for one year can buy a decent small house in Luoyang City."

"What's even more strange is that although the guests of this Tianzi No. 1 room have rented here, they don't come to stay often. So what was her purpose in renting this inn? ”

"What is it?"

"It's to meet someone, to meet someone who is inconvenient to see in his own house or in public."

"See whom?"

"I don't know, if you're interested, you can check it privately." Xing Ruyi walked to the wooden box and squatted down: "Can you dig out this box?" ”

"Yes, the shopkeeper stepped back." Xiao Shengzi looked around first, and then used a shovel to separate the box from the surrounding dirt little by little along the gaps around the box. When he started to move it, he found that the box was very heavy and he couldn't move it alone.

"Call a few more people up, there are dead bodies in this box, and you can't get them out alone."

"Dead bodies?" Xiao Shengzi looked at the wooden box.

"Go and call someone, this box is very likely to be the guest who lives in the No. 1 room of Tianzi. There must be a work in your government. It's best to call it over, this autopsy is also a technical job. ”

"This box hasn't been opened, how does the shopkeeper know that there is a corpse here?"

"Flies! Don't you see that the flies in this room love to stay in this place? ”

Before Xing Ruyi finished speaking, Chang Tai had already begun to pry the box with a dagger. He plunged the dagger directly into the crack of the box, pried it hard, and with a creaking sound, the red wooden box was forced to pry open a crack.

"Xiao Shengzi, help."

"Yes, Brother Chang."

Xiao Shengzi helped Chang Tai lift the lid of the entire wooden box. A strong smell of corpses came to his face, and Xiao Shengzi almost jumped and bounced off the side of the box.

A female corpse, curled up in a wooden box, with the lower half of the body covered with a new quilt. The clothes that held this quilt were much more rotten than the Tibetan monk, and there were many wriggling white maggots in the wooden box. The buzzing flies are more like they are rushing to a feast, and the noisy people have sore ears.

The clothes on the deceased were all real silk and satin, and the comb was a woman's head, and at first glance it was the wife or aunt of a wealthy family. In the waist of the deceased, there were several holes, and there were dark red bloodstain-like traces in the holes. ”

"This man was murdered, right?"

"It's murder, go to the government and ask you to do it." Xing Ruyi covered his nose and took a few steps back: "Where is the innkeeper?" Brought? ”

"Downstairs." Xiao Shengzi pointed downstairs.

"The smell here is too bad, and I'm not from your yamen, so I won't stay here. I'm going to talk to the shopkeeper of the Joy Inn, and maybe I'll be able to get some useful information that will help you solve the case. With that, he turned around and walked out of the guest room.

The innkeeper is the kind of honest person who hasn't gone through anything big.

"Name?"

"Ma San."

"Real name?"

"Back to the girl's words, it's her real name. I have three brothers in my family, the eldest is called Ma Wen, and the second is called Ma Wu. My father and mother were too lazy to name me again, so they called me Ma San. This Ma San has become a big name. ”

"Age?"

"Thirty-eight years old."

"Do you have a family?"

"I became a family, but the lady thought I was poor, so I ran away with others."

"Your conditions are good, how rich and noble does your wife want to marry, so she thinks you are poor?" Xing Ruyi glanced at the inn, two floors up and down, there is a place to park cars and horses in front, and there is a small courtyard where he lives in the back, how can this be regarded as a small and wealthy family.

"When my lady ran away with someone, I wasn't the shopkeeper of this inn, just a runner. Later, the old shopkeeper died, and he had no children, so he left the inn to me. I'm also a fool and a fool, so I changed from a runaway to a shopkeeper. Later, I also thought about marrying another lady, but there were many things, and those who delayed coming and delaying went had no thoughts. Coupled with the matter of the old shopkeeper, I understand that this person does not necessarily have to be married, nor does he necessarily have to have his own wife and children. As long as your life is smooth, it is better than anything else. My two brothers have children, and our Lao Ma family is not bad for me to pass on the family and give the ancestors prosperity and incense. ”

"There's nothing wrong with your thoughts." Xing Ruyi touched the tip of his nose: "Trouble the shopkeeper to tell me about the guest in Tianzi No. 1 room." ”

"I don't know, I really don't know." As soon as it came to the No. 1 room of Tianzi, the shopkeeper began to turn into a question.

"Say as much as you know." Xing Ruyi took the booklet used to register the guest's information: "This is your inn, and the room where people live is also in your inn." Not only did he live, but now he is still dead inside, and he was murdered and deliberately buried his body. Shopkeeper, do you think that in the current situation, you can fool it by saying that you don't know? ”

"I'm ...... I'm ...... I'm really my ......."

"If you don't know where to start, let's start on the day this guest checks in."

"That was a year ago. Just after the beginning of winter, during the day, I was still discussing with the guys in the shop, saying that I didn't know when the first snow after the beginning of winter would fall. As a result, in the evening, snowflakes began to fall in the sky. After this winter, there are fewer guests staying in the hotel, but there are more people who come to eat in the inn. At this time, we had just sent off the last wave of guests who had come to eat fish, and were about to close the door, when we saw a carriage coming from the east. The carriage was huge, like the one used by the officials. Seeing that the carriage stopped in front of our inn, we didn't dare to wait slowly, and immediately went out to greet us.

Coming out of the carriage was a lady, dressed in a dark garment, with no embroidery on it, and no extra accessories. However, I can see that the lady's clothes are made of fine jokes, and are not something that ordinary wealthy people can afford. ”

"What does that lady look like?"

"I don't know." The shopkeeper shook his head: "At that time, she was wearing a hat, and the hat was wrapped in black veil, and I could only hear the voice, but I couldn't see her face clearly." The lady was very generous, and after inquiring about the situation of the No. 1 room in Tianzi, and knowing that there were no guests staying at the house, she directly chartered it and left the room money for most of the year. Half a year later, I made up again. Since I took over this Yuelai Inn, it was the first time I had met such a generous lady, so I gave it away for an extra two months. ”

"The shopkeeper is also a businessman."

"It's hard to do a small business, and it's even more so when you open an inn. This lady is generous, she lives for a year, and she doesn't need us to be responsible for cleaning the room or anything, which saves a lot of trouble. It's also because my eyelids are thin, but at that time, I saw a little bit of silver in front of me. If I had known that I would have been able to meet these things today, I would rather let my Tianzi No. 1 room be empty. ”

"What happened during the lady's stay?"

"Nothing. The lady would come a few times a month, and since she was a permanent resident, the key to the door was given to her, so that she didn't have to go through our fellows anymore. ”

"And when does this lady usually come?"

"I haven't paid attention to when I came, but one thing I can be sure of is that this lady didn't come at a fixed time or a fixed hour."

"Then has there been any movement in the No. 1 room of the Tianzi?"

"Movement? There was no special movement. The shopkeeper thought for a while: "This Tianzi No. 1 room is quiet most of the time, only twice, I faintly heard someone in the room arguing, but it seems that what is said is not our official language, but a kind of muttering that I have not heard." One of them, I also heard a cry, the kind that was particularly aggrieved. I guess I cried after a quarrel with someone and felt uncomfortable. Nine times out of ten, this lady will meet her sweetheart, but this sweetheart is not her husband. ”

"How do you know she's not seeing her husband?"

"Isn't that hard to guess? If these two couples really want to talk, how good is it in their own home, do they still need to run to my inn? The shopkeeper said and snorted lightly: "I am also experienced in this kind of thing." ”