"Under my guidance, He Shouxin has believed that there are no clues inside the house. Next, he will turn his attention to the outside, leaving only one or two people to guard the scene. In this case, I can easily sneak in.
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"To be on the safe side, it's better to go at night."
Zhou Zhi made a plan in his mind and turned around to start his business at noon.
After seeing off the last table of guests, he returned to his room, fell asleep quickly with a yellow beam pillow, and had a good sleep.
Before closing in the evening, Zhou Shizheng and Zhao Qinfeng were checking the accounts, and Liu Xiaosi ran in and said:
"Shopkeeper, there is a dog squatting next to the door. I chased it away several times and it didn't leave."
Zhou Shi said without raising his head: "I guess he's here to beg for food. Let's get him some leftovers. But don't go out through the front door. If he recognizes the door, he will have to run to the door every day to beg for food."<
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Xiao Si responded and walked into the backyard. Zhou Shi also completed the inspection, put the account book into the counter, and said to Lao Zhao:
"I will pay off the debt the day after tomorrow. Remember to cross off the account."
"Okay. Shopkeeper, I'm going home first."
Zhou Shi was the only one left in the front hall. He stretched himself and did a few stretching exercises, preparing to leave as soon as everyone else went to bed.
Xiaosi came back from the backyard and said with a smile: "It ate quite happily. Shopkeeper, more and more people have been buying our food in the past two days. There are even many people from large merchant ships coming to try it. I see
You can do more."
Zhou Shi agreed. The chefs in the kitchen became more and more energetic when they heard that business was booming.
"Hey, did you remember all the words I taught you last time? Let me test you."
"Okay!"
Only then did Zhou Shi realize that he had overlooked a problem: he had taught Xiaosi how to write, but not how to hold a pen! He had to first let him dip his hand in water and write down the words reported by the shopkeeper on the table.
"Well, not bad, basically everything is right."
"Teach more, I can remember it!" Liu Xiaosi said excitedly after being praised by the shopkeeper.
"Okay. What did you learn at the dock these two days? Tell me."
Liu Xiaosi was obviously prepared and answered without thinking.
Zhou Shi thought to himself: "My previous judgment was wrong. He is actually quite smart. Maybe we can give him more tasks... No, he can't do math yet and is too easy to be deceived."
He gave a certain degree of affirmation to prevent Xiaosi from becoming complacent, and then urged the boy to go to bed.
"Huh, I told Mr. Mo, let's go directly..."
At this moment, he smelled a faint fragrance.
"Illusion?"
The scene in front of me was slightly distorted, and a beautiful woman with a slender figure appeared in front of me.
"Luo Ziqing?" Zhou Shi recognized the top oiran of Yichun Garden at a glance.
"Hello..."
Although she is as tall as Zhou Shi, she still behaves like a little girl. At this moment, she is in a strange place, and she is obviously a little nervous. She doesn't know where to put her hands, so she can only clenched her fists and hang them on both sides.<
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"Why are you here? Something happened to Yichunyuan?" Zhou Shi's first thought may be that the government finally took action against Yichunyuan, and Luo Ziqing ran out to ask for help.
"No, my aunt asked me to ask you if there is any news from the government?"
I see... I promised to help Old Mrs. Hu pay attention to the government's actions before, but she has been too busy these two days... and Old Mrs. Hu didn't give her contact information. Yichunyuan may still be under the surveillance of the government. I
He was another "suspicious person" who had been caught once, how could he go looking for her with such arrogance...
Speaking of contact information, Zhou Shi looked at the still somewhat distorted scenery around him and said, "You didn't really run into Fengde Building, did you? There are quite a few people living here!"
Luo Ziqing said confidently: "No, I'm on the street outside now, talking to you using illusion."
It turns out that she is Mrs. Hu’s "contact information"...
"The people in your store are so nice, and they even give me food to eat."
The "dog" just now was you! Zhou Shi couldn't help but hold her forehead. She thought she was smart, but in fact, Liu Xiaosi, an ordinary person, had long noticed it. Fortunately, Xiaosi was born in Jiangdu and didn't know what a fox looked like.
After calming down, Zhou Shi asked: "There is no one in the store, come in and talk."
The scene was distorted again, as if waking up from a dream, the illusion was lifted.
A furry little head appeared behind the door panel. He looked around before dragging his body and crawling into the store.
It was a little fox with brown hair, and the ends of its limbs were black. The only thing that was different from ordinary foxes was the three huge tails on its back.
Zhou Shi sat down at the table with the abacus and account book, and asked Luo Ziqing to lie down on the bench. In this way, if the clerk found out, he could say that he was doing calculations and read out the numbers habitually. Luo Ziqing, who had transformed into his original form, was very tall.
Small, as long as you hide under the table you won't be discovered.
He was making calculations, covering up his words:
"Jiangdu Yamen, under the leadership of the gold medal detective Zhao Xuan - the person who led the search for Yichun Yuan - is dealing with the backlog of unsolved cases in the past three years and cannot spare the manpower to deal with Yichun Yuan for the time being. But they are sure
Someone will be sent to keep an eye on you, so be careful."
At this point, he remembered that Mrs. Hu didn't know about the corpse fraud yet. So he also reported that the corpses dug out from Yichun Garden had been mass fraud during the burial process, and several corpses were missing.
Tell Luo Ziqing.
"My guess is: There are currently no clues as to the culprit of the Yichunyuan corpse-hiding case, so the government wants to take a long-term approach and quietly dispose of the corpse to cover up the public and wait for the criminal to commit another crime..."
The process Zhou Shi told was also a process of sorting out his thoughts, which was equivalent to reviewing the Yichunyuan corpse hiding case again. Combining what happened in the past two days, he had a new guess:
Zhao Xuan uses thunderous means to clear up the backlog of cases, perhaps to collect clues and clear the stage. On the one hand, it can find out whether the murderer of the Yichunyuan corpse hiding case has committed any crime before - so many corpses cannot be conjured out of thin air.
, on the other hand, it is to clean up the strange things outside Jiangdu City - such as the withered willow tree and the fake well - to prevent these things from coming out to confuse the audience and interfere with the investigation ideas.
Thinking of this, Zhou Shi had an idea.
"In addition, I discovered a strange case that the government is investigating. If I can find out about the case before the government, I can win their trust and get more information."
He changed the subject and set a trap for Luo Ziqing:
"But I'm afraid it will be a bit difficult for me alone..." He leaned back, showing a distressed look, "Although the prisoner has been almost identified, he is an ordinary human being and there is no danger. But to find out the evidence, we must have and
Dog - no, 'a nose that's smarter than a dog will do'."
He made an analogy and observed Luo Ziqing's reaction.
Sure enough, after hearing this, the little fox who was lying on the bench suddenly stood upright and put his two front paws on the edge of the table.
Zhou Shi smiled and said: "What, are you interested?"
The little fox nodded, and its three tails swung in the air.
"Then, let's get together?" Zhou Shi said, extending his right hand.
The fox's paws and his hand were clasped together, and the covenant was concluded.
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