The shopkeeper's words were concise: "Expensive." ”

The crowd went back to the shop.

The shopkeeper took out the account book: "Lao Jin has been taking goods from me for decades, and I have a good idea of how often he comes to buy things every other time and how much he buys at one time." Let's settle the bill, sometimes once every six months, sometimes once a year. ”

There are a few pages in this ledger dedicated to the items purchased by Kim Jong-ri, and the shopkeeper points them to the public.

Every time I remember the account clearly, what I bought and how much it was.

Sure enough, the variety and quantity of items are about the same, and the price is about the same. It seems that he is relatively fixed every time he replenishes.

Every two months or so, there is an expense of three taels.

The shopkeeper flipped to one of the pages and pointed to a note: "This is it, in the spring of four years ago, he suddenly came to me to buy something, unlike usual, he didn't buy many things, but they were all expensive, good things." ”

On that occasion, Kim Jong-ri actually spent 120 taels of silver.

"Good." Liu Sha said: "What is it, worth so much silver?" ”

The shopkeeper picked up a few items from the counter and showed them to everyone.

"Adults don't know, although this product and the goods, although they look similar, they are actually very different."

The shopkeeper was holding two yellow talismans, both of which were symbols that no one could understand, and at first glance there was really no difference.

Ye Caitang took it, sniffed it, and looked at it.

Pointing to one of them, he said, "This one is expensive." ”

"Girl's eyesight." The shopkeeper gave a thumbs up, but it was a little strange: "But how did the girl see that this is expensive?" To be honest, most people can't tell the difference, and they all say that it looks the same. ”

The shopkeeper looked at Ye Caitang carefully and felt that she didn't look like a fellow practitioner. She looked at the things in the store no different from the curious eyes of ordinary people.

Xia Yue was also very strange in her heart.

Ye Caitang explained: "The taste is different. ”

Liu Sha couldn't help but smell it too: "The taste is different." ”

But he didn't think it was more expensive.

Ye Caitang said: "This smell is the smell of incense in the main hall of Hualong Temple in the suburbs of Beijing, it should have been worshiped in it, and maybe it was even opened by the master, so it is expensive." ”

Hualong Temple is the first Huguo Temple outside the capital, the incense is prosperous, although Ye Caitang has not been there because he is lazy, but Lin Ling's mother and daughter have been, she has smelled this smell.

She sniffed another one: "The other one is an ordinary yellow talisman, and the smell on it is the same as the incense in Kim Jong-li's house, that is, the ordinary incense bought in this store, and there is no blessing, so it is cheap." ”

The shopkeeper was very impressed: "The girl is really careful, it is true." Although they all look the same thing, the prices vary widely. ”

The shopkeeper's comparison drew a number, and everyone smacked their tongues when they saw it, it was indeed expensive.

The shopkeeper smiled embarrassedly, and carefully put away the expensive yellow talisman: "Ordinary people can't tell the difference, but Lao Jin is an expert, and he is all clear, and that time, he picked out very good things." Real money, I also asked him casually at the time, who is this for nothing, so grand. ”

Everyone listened and their hearts moved, and Xia Yue immediately said, "What did he say?" ”

The shopkeeper shook his head: "He didn't say anything, although Lao Jin and I have known each other for many years, he is quite withdrawn, and we haven't talked much about it." I know that he is alone, and I don't know what to do with all this money? Take it to the bottom, and the one used below is not the same as the one used above. ”

After all, he has been a customer for many years, and the news of Kim Jong-li's death still makes the shopkeeper very emotional. Even though the most important thing to watch in his line of work is death, he can't help but sigh a few more words.

Xia Yue said: "Shopkeeper Zhou, can you be sure that Jin Zhengli bought the time, and there will be no mistake in the items?" ”

"No, it won't." The shopkeeper immediately said: "I know the bookkeeping very clearly, and it must be good." ”

"Okay." Xia Yue said: "Then these items are definitely for funerals, can you see men, women and children?" ”

"Hiss......" The shopkeeper was embarrassed: "This, it must be a funeral, this will not be wrong, but men and women ...... I can't really see it. But certainly not the old and the young. ”

After a long time, it was not easy for the shopkeeper to provide this information, and everyone asked a few more questions and left.

Comparing the numbers asked by Liu Sha before, Ye Caitang said: "Kim Jong-ri has spent most of his income this time, but he is really willing, it seems that this person is very important to him." ”

It's a pity I don't know who she is.

But there are still channels to check.

On the archives of the household department, there is the information of every household in the capital, the birth must be registered, and the death must be closed, and this is the case in every dynasty.

According to the time given by the owner of the coffin shop, around that time, find the death list of the household.

After all, the capital is so big, not to mention the mobile ones, there are many permanent populations, many births in one day, and many deaths.

Everyone looked at the list of deaths in seven days and felt that this was also a big project.

There are about 500,000 permanent residents in the capital, and the number of deaths in a day is about 150.

Seven days is nearly 1,000 people.

Liu Sha took a long breath: "I really didn't pay attention to it before, if you don't fight or famine, you will be born, old, sick and die, so many people will die in the capital in one day." ”

Ye Caitang is not surprised, after all, there are so many people in the capital, she has also come to the household department once before to check whether there is Lin Ling with the same name and surname, and she has a certain understanding of the population of the capital.

Cities with a population of about 500,000 have a mortality rate of only 10 percent in the current era of backward medical conditions, which is not too high, and can be regarded as a peaceful and prosperous era.

But if it's ten, a hundred, you can check it one by one. These thousands of individuals, one by one, have to find out the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse.

"Let's sift through it first." Xia Yue said: "It's not a way to check one by one. ”

After the funeral was completed, Kim Jong-ri continued to give money outside, which shows that although this person died, he still left descendants.

Let's take the most common situation, Kim Jong-ri has a lover outside, this person is a married woman, so he can't say anything, but she left a child after her death, so Kim Jong-ri has been providing for him.

This person gave birth to a child, and the age must not be too young, and then remove the elderly and children, and many people will be screened out at once.