Zhou Shi was shocked and immediately recalled some movies and novels he had seen in his previous life.
"Why did Mr. Zhao say this?"
Zhao Xuan said in a deep voice: "After the Yichun Garden incident, I arranged for people to deal with the bodies buried in the backyard in batches.
"The original plan was to transport them outside the city in batches and then bury them together. This was done first to avoid panic among the people, and secondly to prevent the perpetrators from running away after hearing the news.
"In the end, fifteen people went and five came back. These five were so frightened that they hid under their beds for a day and couldn't even speak."
"The other ten..."
"Their bodies were found outside the city, far apart, between the burial site and Jiangdu City, and the wounds on their bodies were quite horrific. They were obviously killed while escaping. The most important thing is..." Zhao Xuan
He exhaled and said without changing his face, "There are two missing bodies."
"So your judgment is that the corpse killed them? But why didn't someone kill them and then steal the corpse?" Zhou Shi still didn't understand Zhao Xuan's logic.
"There are two reasons. First, a number of severely damaged rotten corpses were found between the scene and Jiangdu City, mixed with the corpses of government officials. From the analysis of the footprints, these old corpses did come from the corpse pit.
Secondly, the person who buried the body is missing."
"Maybe he was so scared that he hid?"
Zhao Xuan shrugged and said: "This corpse buryer is a veteran I spent a lot of time to find. This small scene is unlikely to scare him. On the contrary, he is the most suspicious."
The person who buried the corpse is also a person from the underworld, so it seems reasonable to have access to the evil arts of manipulating corpses...
"Well, what do you want to entrust me with?"
"Help me pay attention to the movements in the vagina and find out who may have mastered the art of exorcising corpses. It's best to find out where the person who buried the corpse is now."
Zhou Shi was in trouble: "How to check this?"
"Don't worry, if I think well, he may come to the door by himself in two days." Zhao Xuan smiled enigmatically, took out something from her arms, slapped it on the table, and made a crisp sound, "I
I won’t let you work in vain, come on, keep this.”
Zhou Shi took a closer look, and his eyes almost popped out of his head - it was a fifty-tael silver ingot!
"Ouch, it's not appropriate, it's not appropriate. You have to spend money on such a trivial matter -" He happily picked up the silver ingot, and when he touched it, his smile froze, "Mr. Zhao, this... is official silver.
?"
Zhao Xuan smiled and said: "Not bad, right? You are definitely not short of money. Every time you provide a useful clue, I will give you a gold ingot. Isn't such a good business better than opening a restaurant?"
Zhou Shi sneered twice and understood her intention.
Official silver is silver cast by the government, with special marks on it, and can only be used by the official. Of course, the official silver given by Zhao Xuan is not short of a pound, and it even shines like a mirror, but Zhou Shi dare not take it out.
Flower.
Private use of official silver and private recasting of official silver are both serious crimes!
Zhao Xuan's meaning is very clear: I won't treat you badly, and don't play tricks on me. Just do things honestly after receiving the benefits. If you don't report the knowledge or act collusion, I have many ways to get rid of you.
After all, Zhou Shi is also a member of the underworld, and of course has a closer relationship with the culprit than with the government. She is right to be on guard.
Even if he knew her intention, Zhou Shi didn't dare not accept it. He put the money into his sleeves generously, feeling as if he had a noose around his neck.
"Thank you, Mr. Zhao. Zhou will do his best. But how should I contact you if I get news?"
"It's simple. When you want to find me, just put a broom at the door of Fengde Building. If it's urgent, put it on the right. If it's not urgent, put it on the left. My people will notify me if they see it.
”
Zhou Zhi recited it silently in his mind to make sure he remembered it.
"Got it."
"Well, I have something to do over there, so I won't bother you."
Zhou Shi reflexively said politely: "Don't you want to drink some tea before leaving?"
Zhao Xuan waved her hand and said: "I don't like drinking tea, so let's go first."
"We not only have tea here, but also drinks and wine..."
"Yinzi?" Upon hearing this, Zhao Xuan immediately sat back on the bench, "Is it sweet?"
Zhou Shi was stunned and replied: "Something sweet."
"Then I want one bowl, no, three bowls of sweets!"
"Okay——"
Zhou Shi lifted the curtain and came out, sighing.
"It's all muscle memory..."
He asked Xiao Si to go to the back kitchen and ask for three bowls of lotus seed and red date soup, saying that he wanted to drink it himself.
After a while, Xiaosi came back with three bowls of soup. Zhou Shi took the plate and asked him again not to be disturbed. At the same time, he asked:
"Have the Young Masters come back?"
"Uh, not yet."
"Where's Agui?"
"He said he was going to the pier to explore the way, and by the way, he had a kitchen knife and a pot ready."
Zhou Shi nodded. It was his idea to let Agui go to the dock, so he didn't ask any more questions.
Back in the private room, Zhao Xuan's hands were tapping the table, and her eyes lit up when she saw the sweet soup.
"Your sweet soup."
"Thank you!"
The three bowls of sweet soup quickly reached the bottom. Zhao Xuan scraped the bottom of the bowl with a spoon, trying to dig out another spoonful.
"Oh... Shopkeeper, check out."
She put the bowl down reluctantly, took out a piece of broken silver from her pocket and placed it on the table.
This sweet soup is originally given to guests to relieve their tiredness, so how can I accept the money? Not to mention that the money is enough to set up several tables in Fengde Tower!
Zhou Shi quickly stopped him: "We don't need so much!"
Zhao Xuan waved her hand and said: "If you don't need it, leave it on the cabinet for me. I'll come back next time."
She moved back, letting her knees leave the table, leaping into the air while still sitting, and landed outside the window.
Zhou Shi immediately stepped forward, leaned against the window and looked down. He saw people coming and going, but where was the shadow of the girl who fell headlong?
What an amazing qinggong!
He looked back at the three empty bowls and the money on the table, sighed, collected the money and the account book, and went downstairs to ask the waiter to come up and clean them up.
It was almost dusk, and the guests were checking out and leaving one after another. The four new cooks walked into the front hall, said hello to the shopkeeper, and left.
Zhou Shi's eyes focused on the youngest chef named Xue An. His skills were indeed amazing, and it was a bit humiliating to let him cook the food at the dock... Let him cook for a while to see if he can be used in the big kitchen
.
After seeing off the last table of guests, Agui also came back.
"Is everything arranged?"
"Yes." Agui put his baggage on the chair and said breathlessly, "This is a new thing, please check it out. The stove in the kitchen is also set up, and the laborer has been found.
, I can put it on the stove early tomorrow morning."
"Okay, okay." Zhou Shi looked at Agui's red face and felt guilty when he remembered that he had not received his wages for nearly two months.
"As long as the road to the pier is opened up, Fengde Tower can be brought back to life..."
It's really interesting to say that as a time traveler, Zhou Shi originally only wanted to play the role of shopkeeper Zhou, not to be a gangster, to take good care of the Yinhun Inn in Fengde Building, and to find a way to save his life from the iron abacus. Unexpectedly, after several days of busy work, Zhou Shi calculated the accounts of the dead and the living at the same time, which made many ghosts rest in peace and made many living people happy. Although it was hard and dangerous, Zhou Shi felt a huge sense of accomplishment. He slowly tied these two jobs to his life.
"This is what it feels like to work hard for your career..." Zhou Shi smiled bitterly, thinking that as long as he could survive, he wouldn't mind staying in this world and being the boss of Fengde Building.
"Hey, why are you still here? Didn't I let you go?"
A loud roar pulled him out of his thoughts. In the memory of this body, this sound was no different from a ghost calling the door in the middle of the night!