Hearing this, the shopkeeper's face was already very ugly, and the guy who saw it trembled for a while, and hurriedly said: "That's all, that's really it!" The other villains don't know! ”

"Why, listening to you, you know something else, but you can't say it?" Lin Xi asked sharply.

The man's face turned pale, and he shook his head violently and said no.

Lin Xi didn't have a hobby of embarrassment, and waved his hand to let him retreat.

The shopkeeper was about to leave, but was stopped by Lin Xi: "The shopkeeper is slow, I still have a problem." ”

The shopkeeper's figure paused, barely squeezed out an ugly smile, and asked, "I don't know what you want to ask?" ”

Lin Xi sat back and let Erbao continue to eat his meal, and then asked, "When the official came to ask questions, why didn't the shopkeeper tell them this?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly: "Madam, grass people just do some small business, and it is not easy to make money!" Finally, the business improved a little, but it turned out that people died again, and not many people came to patronize it, if they told the official family about it, then the people would definitely know from the notice. There are rumors of the dead soul asking for their lives, and the inn of the grass people will not be able to open at all in the future! ”

"Besides, Li Tian was taken away by the official, I'm afraid I would have told the official master by now!"

Lin Xi looked at him thoughtfully.

The shopkeeper smiled dryly and bowed his head.

"It's okay, shopkeeper, go out." Lam Creek Road.

The shopkeeper's temptation: "Then ...... this"

Lin Xi said categorically: "I will definitely tell the yamen." But you can rest assured that if it really has nothing to do with this case, the yamen will never leak it, and your business will continue in the future. ”

The shopkeeper was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him.

When he went out, Er Bao suddenly said, "Mother, I feel that the shopkeeper is not quite right." ”

Lin Xi looked at him: "What do you say?" ”

Erbao said suspiciously: "I don't know, but it feels like he's deliberately hiding something." ”

Lin Xi also felt this way, but on the surface, the shopkeeper's concealment was understandable.

Suddenly, Lin Xi had a flash of inspiration and said, "Erbao, my mother has something she wants you to help do, are you willing?" ”

Erbao's eyes lit up, and he asked excitedly, "What's the matter?" ”

Lin Xi leaned into his ear and whispered a few words.

Hearing this, Erbao turned from shock to excitement, and said eagerly: "Mother, isn't this very good?" ”

"What's not good? Extraordinary things must be done by extraordinary means. Lin Xi thought to herself, isn't her virtue just what she lacks at this time.

After that, Lin Xi got up and went out, and there was Wu Jiu left by Shen Chen outside.

In fact, Lin Xi didn't trust him much, after all, he was Yang Shizhong's person. But Shen Chen said that he could, and he could only find him.

"Wu Jiu, I want to ask you to do two favors." Lin Xi said politely.

Wu Jiu, who was leaning against the wall, stood up straight and looked at Lin Xi lightly, "What's the matter?" ”

"First, you find a trustworthy person to go to the yamen and tell Shen Chen that someone had died in the deceased's room a month ago, and the case has not been solved, and the guests who stayed in later said that they had a hell; Second ......"

Lin Xi looked around and saw that there were no suspicious people, so he stepped forward to approach Wu Jiu

Wu Jiu instinctively wanted to retreat and pull a distance, but was stopped by Lin Xi: "Come here, I'll whisper to you." ”

Wu Jiu hesitated and leaned closer.

Lin Xi said in a low voice: "You go and prepare something, and then ......"

A look of surprise flashed in Wu Jiu's eyes, as if he didn't expect Lin Xi to come up with such an idea.

……

After dinner, the night was getting darker, and Lin Xi hadn't seen Shen Chen come back.

She thought to herself that Shen Chen should have been interrogated overnight in the Yamen, after all, there were so many people involved in the case, and now there were two more murders of officials and servants.

"Erbao, let's not wait for Daddy, let's go to sleep directly." Lin Xi called Erbao to wash.

Erbao didn't feel sleepy at all: "Mother, when are we going to do it!" ”

Lin Xi tapped him on the forehead, "The second half of the night." At this time, you can sleep at ease, so as not to be sleepy. ”

"No, it won't!"

Erbao happily washed up and obediently went to bed and fell asleep.

Lin Xi didn't sleep, and when Erbao fell asleep, she went out lightly.

There were still a few officials on duty outside, and Lin Xi asked them to go to the first floor to rest for a while before coming up, and she was watching here.

After the person left, Lin Xi immediately pushed the door into the deceased's room.

It was quiet inside, and there was no candle lighting to illuminate it, as if even the heartbeat could be heard.

Lin Xi took out the fire fold and blew it on, looked around with the faint light, and finally went to the bed, hesitated and lay down.

"I'd like to see if there's anything unclean in there."

Lin Xi blew out the fire breaker, clutched the handle of the dagger tightly in his hand, closed his eyes and waited.

In the darkness, Lin Xi's other senses were more obvious, and he seemed to hear some subtle wind sounds.

It was also very cold in the room, Lin Xi couldn't help it, and pulled the quilt on the side to cover it.

The next moment, Lin Xi suddenly felt that there was a hard place in the middle of the quilt, she immediately groped, and finally simply cut the quilt with a dagger, and felt that there were two or three dry and hard lumpy things inside.

She picked it up and smelled it, and her heart was shocked.

It's the smell of that strange smell!

It's spice!

Lin Xi immediately sat up, trying to take out the fire fold and light it to see clearly, but he didn't know where his hand was going, only to hear a sudden click.

Before he could react, the bed board under him suddenly fell, and Lin Xi fell!

"Someone!"

Lin Xi suddenly screamed, and then wanted to slap himself.

The people on duty outside were all arranged by her to go to the first floor!

That is, no one outside can come to her!

Lin Xi scolded secretly, and the next moment, her body smashed on an inclined hard board, and her eyes were full of stars.

Then, her body inertia rolled downward.

At this time, Lin Xi realized that this was an authentic tunnel.

She tried to stop, but she couldn't catch anything to stop herself, and her inertia kept rolling until she hit what appeared to be a wall.

"Vomit ......"

Lin Xi was dizzy, his stomach was churning, and there was a faint smell in the dry air, Lin Xi stood up and retched.

After a while, Lin Xi came to his senses, took out a fire fold and lit it, and saw that this was a tunnel made of stones, which had been inclined downward, but stopped here, and then there was a straight road.

Unexpectedly, there was such a road in the room where Yueqin lived.

"Wait! Since there is a secret passage, then this is not a closed room murder case, and the murderer can escape from here! ”

Lin Xi realized that maybe the female corpse that died in place also went up from here.

There was a male corpse case from a month ago, and the murderer should have gone here.

"But what about the smell? What is the effect of the exotic scent that appears? ”

Lin Xi blocked his mouth and nose, lest this strange fragrance have a stunning effect.

After thinking about it, Lin Xi returned the same way and decided to find the officials and Wu Jiu first. They came down much safer than her, and they had to tell Shen Chen.