Chapter 27: Blank Paper

"And who the hell is this woman?" Xu Tian asked.

"It's not about the case, she's just an old friend of mine." Yu Yi said.

"Then let's talk about this statue of the god who is too old!" Xu Tian said.

"Actually, what I'm showing you is not this statue, but what is inside the statue." Yu Yi said.

Xu Tian picked up the statue and found that there was a black box stuffed at the base of the statue.

"How do I think this box was given to me by that stranger on the island?" Xu Tian said.

"It's just a lot like it, this box has been hidden inside the idol all along." Yu Yi said.

Xu Tian pulled out the box and opened it to see that it contained a piece of paper wrapped in plastic.

However, after Xu Tian opened the paper, he did not see any words or pictures on it.

"What does that mean?" Xu Tian asked.

"I also studied this piece of paper for a long time. Originally, I found this piece of paper on the night when Master passed the idol to me, and after thinking about it all night, I was going to ask Master what this paper meant, but the next morning my Master had already said goodbye. Yu Yi said.

"So what does it mean that this blank piece of paper has never been answered?" Xu Tian asked.

"I don't think there should be any mystery in this piece of paper, and it's likely that someone else dropped it." Yu Yi said.

"Dropping a bag? Do you have a suspicion? Xu Tian asked.

"The people I suspect are the people who came to the shop on the day Master passed on the idol to me." Yu Yi said.

"Who has been here?" Xu Tian asked.

"That afternoon, Master gave me the idol, and after receiving it, I placed it in the front hall and offered it. During that time, there were three people in the shop, and it was not until about eight o'clock that night that the Master came back from outside and saw that I had enshrined the idol in the front hall, and the Master was furious, so I put the idol away. Yu Yi said.

"So obviously, the three people who came to the store that day are suspicious, who are they?" Xu Tian asked.

"One of them is Lao Chen, during dinner, Lao Chen came to the store to discuss a case with me, I planned to leave Lao Chen in the store for dinner, and then Xiao Ai went out to buy vegetables. While Chen and I were sitting at our desks in the antechamber discussing the case, I once left for about five minutes and went back to my room to find a book on Feng Shui. Yu Yi said.

"So in the past five minutes or so, Lao Chen is very likely to drop the contents of the statue, do you think so?" Xu Tian asked.

"I'm not sure if it's Lao Chen, there was a doctor who came to the store before Lao Chen." Yu Yi said.

"Doctor? What doctor? Xu Tian hurriedly asked.

"You don't have to be so anxious, it's not Dr. Lin, it's an orthopedic surgeon who came to me that day, about the same age as me, and he came to me to discuss feng shui." Yu Yi said.

"Orthopedic surgeon? How do I have a bad feeling! Xu Tian seemed to have something in his mind.

"This orthopedic surgeon stayed with me for two hours, during which Xiao Ai was taking a nap in the room, I went to the bathroom once, and I went out to get a courier." Yu Yi said.

"The two times you've been away have been for a short time, haven't they?" Xu Tian asked.

"The courier was delivered at the door of the store, and I came back with a sign. As for the bathroom, it's less than two minutes. Yu Yi said.

"In those two short minutes, the orthopedic surgeon has plenty of things to take away the base of the idol." Xu Tian said.

"Before the orthopedic surgeon, the person who came to my shop was a restaurant owner in an urban village, and he also came to talk to me about feng shui, because his shop wanted to worship the God of Wealth, so he came to ask me where the God of Wealth was placed." Yu Yi said.

"Does the owner of the hotel have time to take the things from the idol base?" Xu Tian asked.

"Probably not, I don't remember going out during the time the owner was there." Yu Yi said.

"Then only Lao Chen and the orthopedic surgeon are suspected, you should have thought of this matter back then, right? Why didn't it go further? Xu Tian asked.

"Of course I investigated, but I failed, not only Lao Chen and the orthopedic surgeon, but even the restaurant owner investigated very carefully, but in the year I investigated them, I didn't find any unusual behavior on their part." Yu Yi said.

"Is that all?" Xu Tian asked.

"Of course, there were some small episodes during this period, Lao Chen found out that I was following him, and after I explained the matter, Lao Chen didn't blame me, and of course I didn't continue to investigate Lao Chen since then." Yu Yi said.

"What about the orthopedic surgeon?" Xu Tian asked.

"I've even sneaked into the orthopedic surgeon's house, as well as his office, and found nothing." Yu Yi said.

"If you exclude that the hotel owner and Lao Chen have dropped the contents of the tin box, then only the orthopedic surgeon is the most suspicious, when you say that person is an orthopedic surgeon, my heart begins to hairy, do you have a photo of that orthopedic surgeon now?" Xu Tian asked.

"Of course not, why should I keep a picture of a man?" Yu Yi complained.

"That orthopedic surgeon is a doctor in the city?" Xu Tian asked.

"It used to be." Yu Yi said.

"Before? And now? Xu Tian asked.

"At that time, when this incident happened, I had not yet come into contact with Zhinian Tai Sui, so after I pursued it to no avail, I did not continue to investigate, I kept thinking that when I saw Master again one day, I would just ask him directly what was inside the iron box." Yu Yi said.

"But until now, you haven't seen your master again, have you?" Xu Tian asked.

"Yes, this is also what I have been worried about, and the contents of the tin box have never been found." Yu Yi said.

"You show me that this dropped paper is meaningless, do you want to tell me something else?" Xu Tian asked.

"Of course, this piece of paper is meaningless to us, but this incident was the fuse for me to come into contact with the ruling Tai Sui." Yu Yi said.

"What do you say? Is there a follow-up to this matter? Xu Tian asked in surprise.

"About two years after this incident, I had already buried it in my heart at that time, and it wasn't until someone came to the store that summer that I remembered it again." Yu Yi said.

"Who reminded you of that?" Xu Tian asked.

"The orthopedic surgeon came again, but that time he didn't come to me to talk about Feng Shui, but to buy statues of gods." Yu Yi said.