Chapter 001: The beginning of the puzzle
In the second year of the Republic of China, Midsummer Eve.
Luancheng in the north, the back room of the lion teahouse.
The shopkeeper Gu Qingdai sat by the makeup mirror with one hand, remembering the scene that happened half an hour ago, and still had palpitations.
With two gunshots ringing out in warning, the inside and outside of the teahouse was quickly surrounded by a team of officers and soldiers.
The leader is the new president of the Luancheng Chamber of Commerce, Lian Beichuan.
He received a report that an important wanted criminal was hiding in the teahouse.
The tea house was within the jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce, and he, the new official, personally led the officers and soldiers to search for him, and tricked Gu Qingdai into quickly explaining the whereabouts of that person.
The guests who patronized the teahouse were so frightened by the battle that they couldn't hide or slip away.
She couldn't bear to smash Gu Qingdai's business like this, so she rushed to Lian Beichuan and said violently at him.
Who doesn't even know Beichuan's domineering temperament?
The people around secretly sighed that the Lion Awakening Tea House would suffer tonight.
Gu Qingdai didn't plan to get along with Lian Beichuan at all, she wished he was tired of herself.
She is a modern and promising young man and a small business collar, and takes advantage of the holidays to go to the suburbs.
was eating hot pot and singing songs, when suddenly a big thunder struck her, and she died on the spot.
When she opened her eyes again, she was in the novel she had swiped in a browser the night before.
It is a book dressed in the era of making a fortune, but it is actually a romantic and sympathetic article between the female protagonist and the male protagonist......
She became the heroine with the same name as herself, and Lian Beichuan is the male protagonist in the book!
Gu Qingdai swore to the lamp, it was really because she had the same name as herself that she flipped through it at will, and when she noticed that the plot was turning yellow on her face, she immediately retreated.
She is determined not to follow the original path, and it is despicable to rely on that kind of means to achieve success and go to the peak of life.
So she vowed to distance herself from the male protagonists and male partners, and resolutely did not have any intersection with them.
But tonight, that boundary was broken.
The strange thing is that even Beichuan did not embarrass her, and after a brief communication with the captain, the team withdrew from the tea house, giving people the illusion that thunder is heavy and rain is small.
Gu Qingdai expected that there must be an article here, and was muttering in her heart, and the back of her head was instantly blocked by something hard.
"Don't move! Don't scream! ”
A terrifying male voice came from behind her.
She felt a chill down her spine, and she only dared to raise her eyes slightly, and saw from the mirror that it was a thin man covered in blood.
Could it be the wanted criminal that Lian Beichuan is looking for?
"What did you do?" She pretended to be calm and did not dare to act rashly.
After all, it's a gun in the back of your head!
The man's arm holding the gun was trembling faintly, not panicked, but seriously injured.
"I didn't do anything."
"Is that a grievance?"
The man was silent for a while, and then sighed: "If you want to add to the crime, why bother? ”
"How did you sneak into the teahouse? Even Beichuan's bastard let me scold away. There are no officers and soldiers outside, so hurry up and run, because I haven't seen you today. ”
Gu Qingdai didn't have time to study with him in detail, and it was most important to save her life at the moment.
The man looked at the overly charming face in the mirror, "The shopkeeper Gu is beautiful and has a refreshing temperament, I hope I didn't see the wrong person." ”
"What are you talking about?" Gu Qingdai looked confused, puzzled by what he was talking about.
The man was about to explain, but he suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, and the blood foam splashed onto the mirror, as well as Gu Qingdai's cheeks.
Gu Qingdai covered her mouth and forced herself not to make a sound.
"Don't be so surprised, I can't run away, I'm going to die."
There was unspit blood in his throat, and he was mumbling as he spoke.
The gun against Gu Qingdai's head was slowly moved away by him, and his body lost some of his center of gravity, and he almost fell to the ground.
Without the threat of a gun, Gu Qingdai got up quickly, and finally looked at the man with four eyes.
It's all because she didn't read the book carefully enough, she really doesn't remember that there is such a person in the book.
"Shopkeeper Gu, I have a reluctant request, you have to agree to me." He is non-negotiable, and he must accept it.
Gu Qingdai wiped the blood foam splashed on her cheeks, "You and I have never met. ”
The man took out a coarse and linen rag from his bosom in his robe, which was also stained with a lot of blood.
Unable to help but say, he used the only strength he had left to forcibly stuff it into Gu Qingdai's hand.
"It's priceless...... man's voice lowered.
It turned out that this man's name was Li Zheng, and his family had been tomb keepers for generations, guarding a general who had made many military exploits in the previous dynasty.
There are countless treasures buried in the tomb, which attracts many shameless people to covet them madly.
It is the number one reason why he attracted the disaster of killing.
Sadly, he's dying, and he hasn't figured out who is behind it.
The things he handed over to Gu Qingdai were self-evident, the true geographical location of the tomb, and all the signs of the organs set up in the tomb.
Gu Qingdai only felt that the burden on her shoulders suddenly became heavier, and she couldn't stop shaking her head: "You live well, I can't do this thing." ”
Li Zheng frowned, and trembled and unbuttoned the placket of his long shirt, revealing multiple wounds on his body that were still bleeding.
It's all traces of torture!
"I can't make it tonight." He sat weakly on the Arhat couch on the side.
Gu Qingdai's eyes gradually moistened, and she choked up: "A good person shouldn't have a short life." ”
"Shopkeeper Gu listened to me, I will dispose of the body as soon as possible after I die. A treasure map is a hot potato, so you have to hide it well and don't get yourself into trouble. I believe that one day it will see again. ”
Li Zheng's breath became weaker and weaker, and his two eyelids drooped heavily.
Gu Qingdai half-knelt in front of Li Zheng and reached out to hold his palm, a silent and solemn promise.
"I'm so sorry, but please......"
"Li Zheng, Li Zheng!"
Li Zheng will never be able to respond to her.
A living person, just like this, died tragically in front of her.
It's been a few days, and this is undoubtedly the biggest blow to her.
"The house has to be cleaned up, and the bodies have to be disposed of before dawn."
Another male voice suddenly sounded behind Gu Qingdai, and her soul was so frightened that she was about to fly out.
How could there be a third person in this room?
It's even Beichuan, he didn't leave at all!
Sure enough, I left a hand.
"When did you hide in?" Gu Qingdai glared at him viciously.
"When you said you scolded Lian Beichuan's bastard away."
Lian Beichuan was very indifferent on his face, and he did not show the slightest emotion about Li Zheng's death.
He bypassed Gu Qingdai, first took away the gun left by Li Zheng, and then carefully sorted out the remains for Li Zheng.
"You killed him."
"Sort of." Even Beichuan didn't defend himself.
He came here today just to give the county magistrate a face.
The deputy county magistrate lied that his home had been stolen and that he had lost a number of extremely precious calligraphy and paintings from the former dynasty.
The thief was captured by his family and lynched, but he still refused to say where the calligraphy and paintings were hidden.
Taking advantage of the change of shifts, the thieves escaped cunningly, so they asked Lian Beichuan to come forward and help investigate in the jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce.
Hearing Li Zheng's word-for-word statement, Lian Beichuan knew that he had let people be used as guns.
More importantly, he understands that this matter will not end because of Li Zheng's death, on the contrary, it is just the beginning.
"If you don't want to end up with Li Zheng, don't let the third person know about tonight."
Lian Beichuan wrapped Li Zheng's body tightly with an old sheet, and looked around the house to see how clean it was cleaned by Gu Qingdai.
Gu Qingdai wiped the last piece of blood, raised her eyes and sneered: "What role do you play here?" ”
Even Beichuan stepped forward and forced her back into a corner, and her whole body was shrouded in his tall body.
Gu Qingdai's body tightened, even Beichuan was going to kill her?
"Treasure map, give it to me."