Shi Yikun was silent, and only after Shi Yipeng walked away did he show a weird smile.

The night was peaceful, and when the next day came, Chang Candle was already able to get out of bed and walk around. When he heard about Shi Zique's death yesterday, he thought that it should be the two owners who killed people. In the past, he and Shi Zique had a good relationship, so the first thing he did after getting out of bed was to come to the mourning hall to worship.

Chang Candle couldn't understand how the two owners killed Shi Zique, you must know that Qi Chu was in charge of the Splendid Workshop. Now the cold corpse was lying in the coffin, looking at his clothes intact, his face was calm, and it seemed that he had not struggled much before he died.

Chang Zhu wondered in his heart, would Shi Zique really not resist? When he was alive and dead, he actually calmly suffered his death? What happened yesterday?

Just as he was thinking, he heard footsteps behind him. Shi Yikun walked over, and Chang Candle hurriedly saluted when he saw him: "My subordinates have seen the master of the big village." ”

Shi Yikun stood in front of the coffin, although it was cold and frozen, the corpse was already a little rancid after a day. Then he instructed Chang Candle and said, "Today you have someone to bring some spices." ”

Chang Candle knew that he wanted to use the smell of spices to cover up the rancid smell, and he usually used this method during the period when large families were in limbo. If it is a small common person, it is natural that they cannot afford to buy expensive spices, so they can only be buried as soon as possible.

"Big owner, I think it's better to bury it quickly, so as not to cause extraneous branches. Chang Candle reminded that he thought it was Shi Zique who was lying in the coffin.

Shi Yikun whispered in his ear, and Chang Candle's face changed. He never imagined that things would be like this, are there really two identical people in the world? He looked at Shi Zique's face in the coffin and didn't find any flaws.

Shi Yikun didn't want to be buried too early, so he discussed it with Shi Yipeng. The later the better, so that more people in the rivers and lakes will know that Shi Zique is dead, no matter where Shi Zique really appears in the future, he can only be the villager Wang Shan.

"Hurry up and prepare spices, if someone asks what spices are used for, rest assured that they are used by the Passing Water Villa for the eldest young master Shi Zique. Shi Yikun looked around and made sure that there was no third person before he smiled.

Chang Candle took the order, although he was injured, but he had to do such an important thing himself. The key to this matter is not in the spices, but to let more people know that Shi Zique is dead.

Shi Yikun put incense into the incense burner, and in the eyes of outsiders, he was really good to this nephew. But who knew it was just a joke?

At this time, Shi Yipeng walked over and looked at the sky, "It's almost time, and I don't know what happened to the master's arrangement." ”

"Don't worry about the things arranged by the master, naturally there will be no accidents. ”

Shi Yikun remembered what Shi Yipeng said last night, there was no expression on his face, but he had some resentment in his heart.

Shi Yipeng didn't know what he was thinking, this is how the two of them have come over for so many years. Shi Yipeng is used to it, and from time to time he sarcastically mocks his brother, just trying to be happy.

......

It was almost noon, Qi Chu, Xu Jinyu, Shu Lingxue, Sheling and Shi Zique sat around the table in the Splendid Workshop. It was time to eat, but there was not a single dish on the table, nor a bowl of rice.

Seeing that Lan Ting was not there, Shering thought that he should be busy in the back kitchen. So I fantasized about the lunch meal in my mind, and I almost left my saliva. But after waiting for a long time, Lan Ting didn't come out, and thought to himself: Could it be that the dishes you ate today are difficult to cook? Just as he was about to get up and go to the kitchen to help, the door of the Splendid Workshop opened, and Lan Ting walked in from outside.

"Didn't you make lunch?" Shering said in surprise, only to realize that if Lan Ting was cooking in the kitchen, there would definitely be a smell of food. But the kitchen was very quiet, except for the pungent cold in winter, where there was no smell of food.

Now seeing that Lan Ting's hands are empty, he definitely didn't come back from buying food. Shering was disappointed for a while, and it seemed that he was going to be hungry at noon today.

Lan Ting was sweating profusely again, this time still in a cold sweat, because he was too nervous, too excited, and too shocked just now.

"When is this all this, why are you still thinking about eating!"

What time it was, the five people sitting didn't quite understand. But Lan Ting understood, because he had just come out of the Dead Water Villa.

"Childe, someone in the Dead Water Villa came out to buy spices this morning. Presumably to cover up the rancid stench, I gave the spice shop owner some silver, disguised myself as a delivery boy, and infiltrated the Dead Water Villa. ”

Lan Ting wiped the sweat from his head, and still had palpitations when he thought about it.

"What did you find?" this was what Qi Chu was most concerned about, and now he couldn't understand why the Passing Water Villa dared to buy spices with great fanfare. The Shi brothers should be in a hurry to be buried now, isn't buying spices now just telling outsiders that they are not in a hurry to be buried?

Lan Ting's face was very ugly, he glanced at Shi Zique, and said, "I brought the spices into the mourning hall and placed the spices in the coffin according to their instructions." But I found out that the person lying in the coffin looked exactly like Brother Shi, and it wasn't the deceased wearing a human skin mask like you said last night. ”

Shu Lingxue couldn't help but say: "I didn't wear a human skin mask, but I looked exactly the same, how is this possible?"

Shi Zique couldn't believe it, or even couldn't believe it. He knew that Lan Ting was not lying, but how could there be a person who looked exactly like him?

Lan Ting said: "It's really exactly the same, I also secretly checked the face of the deceased, and I really didn't wear a human skin mask." I can swear that if I lie, I'll die instantly. ”

In order to prove that what he said was true, the boy naively swore an oath.

Shering immediately grabbed his raised hand, "Don't swear nonsense!"

Looking at Lan Ting with some reproach, his face was already gloomy.

"There are no skin masks, they look exactly the same. It seems that I underestimated their means. Qi Chu understood why the Shi family was not in a hurry to be buried. Because they have already found a substitute ghost who is exactly the same as Shi Zique, so no one can discover the secret. The longer it drags on, the more people will know that Shi Zique is dead, which will be more beneficial to the Shi family.

"Childe, what should I do now?" Shi Zique fidgeted, now he was very passive, and even fell into a dead end. He pinned all his hopes on Qi Chu.

Qi Chu seemed to have thought about what the other party was going to do next, and immediately said, "You must hide first so that you can't be seen by outsiders." ”

He already understood that the Shi family just wanted to do the matter of stealing beams and changing pillars. In order to make the fake Shi Zique real, he must use some means to turn the Shi Zique in front of him into the substitute ghost who looks exactly like him.

The top priority is to let Shi Zique hide, as long as others can't find him, they can't change his identity.

But then I remembered the knock on the door.