4. Embarrassed gambler, dressed in black
There aren't many "take a sip" in two, let alone two people drinking together.
Mr. Wei climbed into bed after seeing that the wine was finished, and Han Qiufen got up and began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks on the table, and the wine cup. The scholar sat down on the ground again, holding his head with one hand and the ground in front of him with the other, scribbling and drawing. It wasn't until the morning that Han Qiufen called the scholar out of Mr. Wei's house.
After stepping on the pavement of the street, Han Qiufen glanced at the scholar and waved goodbye to the scholar.
The scholar yawned: "Get busy, we'll see you later." After saying that, the scholar turned his hands behind his back and turned into an alley in the opposite direction.
Han Qiufen stood for a while, then turned around and walked forward, now he has to drink a bowl of soy milk to warm his stomach.
Earlier today, before the swill truck entered the city. The gamblers who lived in the neighborhood west of Dengke Street had already gone out, and the gamblers had stayed up all night without sleeping.
Seeing that he walked on the way to the pawnshop early in the morning, he must have lost his surplus.
The gambler looked a little in a trance, he walked slowly on the deserted street, dragging his shoes, and pinching a piece of jade in his right hand.
The jade is warm and translucent, carved with a lot of beautiful ornaments, and it looks like this is a valuable jade pendant.
The gambler's thumb rubbed the pattern of the jade pendant, and every step forward was heavy, and the gambler at this moment looked like he was reminiscing about something.
In a trance, he didn't pay attention to the road under his feet, and almost tripped over a bucket of swill placed in front of the people's door.
The gambler staggered to stabilize his body, and with a happy face, he checked the jade pendant that had just been nested in the palm of his hand, and then carefully put the jade pendant into his arms and patted it through his clothes.
The gambler scolded and turned around. He clenched his fist heavily, but looked at the stains on the swill bucket, and resisted the idea of smashing the swill bucket to pieces.
He turned, took a deep breath of air, and no longer looked at the bucket of swill, but walked back in the direction of the pawnshop. The gambler's feet had just moved forward.
I felt a heavy ball in the move, I don't know when it fell near my feet, at this time the gambler did not suppress his emotions anymore, he flew up and kicked the ball under his feet.
After venting his anger, the gambler exhaled two breaths of air happily.
Walking quickly to the thing he kicked away, he fixed his eyes on it, and it was ...... I'm afraid it's not a head!
Then the gambler's throat seemed to be blocked, and he shuddered, and kept stepping back, but he couldn't turn around.
One of the gamblers paid no attention and fell to the ground.
Before he could complain of pain, he rolled over, closed his mouth, and ran out of the street.
By noon, the incident had been scattered everywhere like a dandelion in spring, and the panic of the people was quickly diluted by a gamble.
The gambler's surname is Jiang, and he is the guy who destroyed the scene of the crime this morning. After he found the body running out of the alley this morning, he immediately reported the news to the official who was looking for a messenger on the road, and then went straight to the big dealer Zhou Shopkeeper's house that opened the gambling plate.
Looking at the gambler's excited back, Shopkeeper Zhou pondered for a while, turned his head and instructed the bookkeeper who had just hurried to do the account: "Pay fifty taels of silver from the account and press him." ”
The bookkeeper should be, and when he saw that there was nothing else to do in the early morning, he retired first.
People are dead or not, two answers, good bets!
Where is the location of the crime, the answer is too right, this is not easy to bet.
Even the old man in Guobei County didn't dare to say that he had visited every corner of the county and was familiar with the information of each household.
So in the end, Shopkeeper Zhou put forward a plan, and it was because of this proposal.
Shopkeeper Zhou became the biggest dealer in this gamble.
His plan was that there were only three bets on the market:
First, the place of the crime was in the house (covered bunker)
Second, the location of the crime was outside the house (both inside and outside the house belong to the outside of the house)
Third, there is no place where the crime occurred
As of noon today, the odds for these three bets are:
One pays five, one pays five, and one pays twenty
The gambler made a windfall, and the shopkeeper Zhou also made a small amount of silver.
The officials of Guobei County are not honest, but the lives of the people can also be regarded as peaceful.
Therefore, most of the people in Guobei County are very simple, and bizarre cases like this usually only occur in other counties, or they are circulated in the mouths of storytellers and celebrities. So no one would have thought that the murderer would dismember a person and throw it into a bucket of swill.
Someone in the county died, or was brutally dismembered, and there was no clue who the murderer was.
In this way, the people finally understood that compared with the bloody reality, there is a huge gap between the storytelling and rumors, and they are far from each other.
Compared with the past, the entire Guobei County seems to be much calmer on the surface, but under the calm surface, there is an unbearable anxiety hidden.
The officials also began to patrol and search around the county day and night, searching strangers from house to house for clues.
The officials even dug up all the places in the county where they could find suspected burial bones.
The curfew time was much earlier, and the mutton wine shop closed early, and even Han Qiufen packed up his things early and returned to the Land Temple.
After Han Qiufen separated from the scholar last night, the scholar didn't know where he went.
On the outskirts of the county where the land temple is located, the grass grows very dense because it has been left untended for a long time.
There was a tree growing next to the outer wall of the Land Temple in the grass outside the Land Temple, and when Han Qiu came back, he saw two brown-red tall horses tied to the tree.
One of the horses was eating the straw at his feet with his head down, while the other kept his head up, as if to observe something.
There are resting guests in the Land Temple tonight, which is not unusual, and the people who usually come to the Land Temple to borrow are people who are in a hurry to rest.
Normally, these people who are in a hurry only delay one night, and they will leave the Land Temple early in the morning, which is not surprising to Han Qiufen.
Han Qiufen pushed open the wooden door, and directly opposite the gate was the statue of the Lord of the Land.
To the left of the statue is a corner, and in the corner sit two men dressed in black, two of whom have built a bonfire, each sitting cross-legged against the wall, surrounding the bonfire to keep warm.
When the two of them just saw someone coming in, they subconsciously raised their heads, glanced at Han Qiufen, and quickly turned their eyes away and looked away. I guess I saw that the person who came in was only a half-grown teenager, so I didn't care.
Han Qiufen took out the futon from under the wooden frame where the idol was placed, and moved to the corner to the right of the statue with the cover.
Shaking the cover in the corner, Han Qiufen lay down, one hand under his head as a pillow, and his body turned his back to the wall, facing the idol.
Three strangers who don't know each other, a god on a wooden frame, a dilapidated earth temple.
The faint light of the flickering fire shone more or less on everyone's faces, and at this moment, because of the flickering of the fire, no one could see the expressions of these three people clearly.