The next morning, Zhou Shi placed the broom on the left side of the door. Before noon, He Shouxin came as promised.
Zhou Shi invited him to the private room on the second floor and told him straight to the point what happened at Wang Jin's home yesterday.
He Shouxin is not a member of the underworld, and his understanding of the underworld is far less than that of Zhao Xuan and other gold medal detectives, so he can get away with it by simply saying "using trickery to find out that Wang Jin and the scholar in the old lady's memory are not the same person." After hearing this, He Shouxin folded his arms and pondered for a while, and said, "I will report it to Capt. Zhao, but I'm afraid we won't be able to spare the manpower to investigate for a while."
"Why?"
"Well, Capt. Zhao has been living in the Yamen these days waiting for news. When he was bored, he dug out the old files piled up in the Jiangdu Yamen. He found a large number of unsolved cases and mysterious cases. He became furious and sent all the yamen officials and servants to their knees.
We are dispatched to re-investigate the unresolved cases of the past three years." He Shouxin's droopy eyelids were enough to show how exhausted he had been these past two days, "Now even the cats in the yamen have been assigned the task of catching mice. If they fail to complete the task, they will be castrated."<
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"So cruel..."
He Shouxin leaned back, rubbed his temples with his hands, and said: "This is not the most cruel thing. In fact, after Capt. Zhao found out that the people in the yamen were cheating on their jobs and neglecting their duties, he decided to castrate them first and slaughter the pigs.
The craftsmen were all invited... Although I persuaded her in the end, she still insisted on letting the pig-mongering craftsman bring a boar and put on a show for the government officials, saying that it was killing chickens to scare the monkeys."
This girl really can't figure it out with normal people's thinking...
Zhou Shi is in trouble. The corruption of Jiangdu Yamen is well-known in Jiangnan. There are three years of backlog of cases. This will have to be dealt with until the Year of the Monkey. Besides, Zhao Xuan is not an official stationed in Jiangdu. If she leaves, who will investigate the scholar's affairs?
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"Master He, is there anything I can do to help?"
"You?" He Shouxin looked Zhou Shi up and down, seeming to have doubts about him.
Zhou Shi was not angry, but just smiled and said: "It is our duty to share the worries of the officials, not to mention that the two adults are also redressing the grievances of the people by resolving the backlog of cases, which is a great thing. Besides, even Mr. Zhao can trust me, why don't you
Do you believe me?"
He wanted to help the Yamen handle the case. First, he wanted to free up Zhao Xuan's manpower to investigate the identity of the scholar. Second, he wanted to see if there was any chance of settling the scores of the dead during the investigation and getting rewards from the iron abacus.
He Shouxin thought about it, and he remembered that Zhao Xuan once said to him, "That Zhou Shi from Fengde Building is full of tricks and should be punished." This shows that this shopkeeper does have some skills.
"Captain Zhao thinks highly of you..."
"Right. After all, I am a member of the underworld. If there is any weird case, you can let me go and find out."
He Shouxin rubbed his chin and said, "I do have a strange case here. How about you come with me?"
Why do you use this statement... Zhou Shi smiled and said: "Yes, but I have to wait until lunch before I can get out."
"No problem, I'll come back to you then."
After sending He Shouxin away, Zhou Shi turned around and was greeted by several regular customers, including the "King of One Eye" Wang Yinchang.
"Mr. Wang, are you doing business again?"
"Yes! It's still the same. Please hurry up, I'm going to leave the city and cross the river." Wang Yinchang sat down at the table and said, "There is a big family across the river. I don't know what kind of treasure they got, and they mysteriously asked me to see it.
They also arranged a boat for noon, which is really rude."
Zhou Shi urged the cook to prepare the dishes quickly so that Wang Yinchang could finish his meal and catch the boat.
After finally finishing the business at noon, He Shouxin appeared at the door of the store. He changed his clothes and walked back and forth at the door of Fengde Building, obviously waiting for Zhou Shi.
"Old Zhao, I'll go out for a while and write down the account after the people who go to the dock come back."
Zhou Shi handed over the task and went out with an iron abacus in mind.
The two of them walked all the way through the streets and alleys, heading north of the city.
In order to avoid running into acquaintances, Zhou Shi did not walk side by side with He Shouxin, but followed him about twenty steps behind. He did not catch up until He Shouxin stopped.
"Arrived."
"Here?"
Zhou Shi raised his head and saw a house surrounded by red walls. Judging from the peeling off of the walls, this house is quite old. It is located in the north of the city, far away from the downtown area. The environment is quiet and elegant, and it feels like it is hidden in the city.<
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But in such an old house, a bunch of bacon hanging at the door is really a sight.
A man wearing a government uniform with a blue background and red edges pushed open the door and walked out. When he saw the two people standing at the door, he was stunned for a moment, then pointed at them and said: "It's a government office, go somewhere else!"
He Shouxin showed his silver medal, and the government officials immediately backed away and invited the two of them into the courtyard.
"Look, it's the well."
There is a conspicuous protrusion in the center of the courtyard. Zhou Shi thought it was a table at first glance, but it turned out to be a sealed well.
"What is recorded in the file is: Six months ago, a woman named Wang came to report that there were a lot of hairs in the water from her well. She felt strange. She lowered a torch into the well and found a body floating in the well.
Female corpse!"
When He Shouxin said this, he observed Zhou Shi's reaction and found that his face was calm and even a little sleepy.
"Then the government officials took a look and found that the body could not be recovered, so they sealed the well and the case ended."
"Ah? Nothing was found?"
He Shouxin, with a face as thick as black iron, said: "This is what is recorded in the file. This case is included in the closed cases. If Capt. Zhao hadn't uncovered it, it might have just passed away."
Zhou Shi calmed down and said, "What does it mean that the body cannot be recovered?"
"The file didn't go into detail. I went to the person who was in charge of the case at the time, and he said that no matter what method they used to retrieve the female body, they could only retrieve a bucket of water with hair on it. They also tried to use a rope to trap it, but what happened?
It can't be trapped. The female corpse is like a ghost."
"Illusion?" Zhou Shi guessed.
"It's hard to say, but they swore that there really was hair in the water, and it was hair that was three feet long."
"What about the people who live here? Have their suspicions been eliminated?"
"Unfortunately, no. The file said that only Wang, who came to report the crime, lived in this house. The Yamen summoned her, but they didn't ask anything, so they let her go."
"What about her?"
"Looking for."
The investigation of this case... Zhou Shi gradually felt that this was not only a mystery, but also a random case!
He walked around the well and found that the wellhead was pressed down with a stone slab and then covered with mud. It didn't seem to be strong.
"Have you opened it and looked at it?"
"Not yet. I am actually investigating other cases, and I will hand them over to the Jiangdu Yamen people for investigation first, but the results..." He Shouxin glared at the Yamen officer in charge of the case, who lowered his head and broke out in a cold sweat. Almost not. Zhou Shi nodded and said, "Cut out the mud sealing the edge and let me see what's in the well."
"Don't, what if there's something in the well..." Just in the middle of what the Yamen servant said, He Shouxin's eyes widened and he didn't dare to speak out.
Zhou Shi raised his hand to persuade: "He is right. So after you cut away the mud sealing the edge, go outside for a while and I will deal with the body."
He Shouxin gloomily accepted the hammer and chisel from the yamen servant, acquiescing to his proposal.
The mud sealing the edge is not thick, and although it has been baked by fire, it can be easily cut through.
"Shopkeeper Zhou, I'll leave it to you."
He Shouxin and the government servant walked out of the courtyard and closed the door, leaving Zhou Shi alone in the courtyard.
"Okay, let me take a look at what's inside..."
He took out the fire fold from the iron abacus and unscrewed the lid, but no fire came out.
"Without Yin Qi, it seems that sealing the well is really effective...but if Yin Qi accumulates in the well, something very bad may happen."
He stretched out his hands, grabbed the edge of the stone slab, exerted his internal strength, and united his waist and horse——
"Drink!"
It's a pity that practicing "Stele Hand" mainly improves internal strength, and does not improve strength much. Fortunately, this stone slab is relatively thin, weighing only seventy or eighty kilograms at most, otherwise he would have to ask He Shouxin for help.
He placed the stone slab on the edge of the well and breathed a sigh of relief before lying down at the wellhead and looking down...
A pair of pale eyes were looking at him.
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