Lao Zhao's call made Zhou Shi come back to his senses and focus on the account books again.
"Shopkeeper, go get some more sleep." Zhao Qinfeng seemed to think that Zhou Shi's frequent distractions in the past two days were due to a lack of rest.
"No, go on." Zhou Shi rubbed his eyebrows and continued to listen to Lao Zhao's report on the income and expenditures of the past two days.
It had been three days since he returned from Wu Zhaokun's house. During the three days, Zhou Shi had been paying attention to the conversations among the guests in Fengde Building, but he had not heard any news related to Wu Zhaokun.
Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. Even if you are a third-level official, you have to contact the market for food and clothing. Although the news in the market is mixed with a lot of strange rumors, there is always some real information.
Thousands of taels of silver appeared out of thin air in the house named by Wu Zhaokun, but it didn't cause any waves... Was the Jiangdu Yamen too disappointing, or did he underestimate the Jiangdu prefect's methods?
"...Together with the ten taels of silver borrowed by shopkeeper Cheng, our debt has been paid off. But judging from the current revenue, I am afraid that the new man's salary for this month will not be paid in time."
"It doesn't matter, our business at the dock can only be regarded as just starting, and there is still room for growth." Zhou Shi asked Lao Zhao to close the account book and said, "As long as nothing happens again..."
"Shopkeeper Zhou!"
Zhou Shi almost bit his tongue, his voice was rich and deliberately pretended to be familiar, it was exactly what he called "a moth".
Even so, he turned around to greet you with a smile: "Mr. He! I haven't seen you for a while. Please come quickly! Old Zhao, ask the kitchen to heat up a pot of wine and prepare three meat dishes to serve!"
The two walked up the stairs talking and laughing, but their laughter stopped abruptly as soon as they entered the private room.
He Shouxin said with a sullen face: "I'm not here to eat."
Zhou Shi smiled and said: "You're here, why not enjoy a meal?"
In fact, what he was thinking was that he helped you investigate the case for free and almost broke two arms. How could he not kill you?
"What brings Sir He here?"
He Shouxin pushed back his sleeves, stared at him and said, "You are very good at pretending to be confused."
Zhou Shi just laughed and didn't answer his words. He had no choice but to continue: "That five thousand taels of silver was a good thing you did, right? If you really have it, I really thought you were a second-hand swordsman."
"Lord He, you've given me the prize. Since the people and the stolen goods are all there, why not..."
"Do you think this is about catching a thief, and someone with stolen goods can be put on the shackles?" He Shouxin walked to the door, gently lifted the curtain, and confirmed that no one came up before continuing, "The current situation can only prove that Mr. Wu
There is a house, and a pile of money suddenly appears in the house. As long as he says that he does not know where the money comes from, or that it is all his own salary, what can we do to him?"
He sat back at the table and said: "Master Zhao and I are detectives who are here to handle the case. We will leave after handling the case. He is the largest official in Jiangdu. He has been in Jiangdu for ten or twenty years. How can anyone be willing to listen to my command?"
Offend Mr. Wu?"
Zhou Shi pretended to be embarrassed and said, "Then I made a mistake by digging out the money."
"That's impossible. What Mr. Zhao means is that of course corruption must be controlled, but the capital must be reported first and people from the imperial court should be sent to investigate. Before that, it is not appropriate to alert the snake. Secondly, we have more important things to do."<
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"What's going on...the corpse hiding case in Yichunyuan?"
He Shouxin nodded and said, "I would also like to thank you for your help. Without your help, the case of the corpse in the well would have taken us a lot of time. Now, we can mobilize more forces to investigate the Yichunyuan case." Zhou Shi pricked up his ears. He cared so much about the Yichunyuan corpse case, firstly, because the case itself was egregious and might contain other conspiracies; secondly, because of Mrs. Hu’s entrustment, which asked him to pay attention to the government’s investigation of Yichunyuan.
The direction of investigation of the case.
"If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know."
He Shouxin waved his hand and said: "Don't be so careful. You have helped us a lot. We have a cooperative relationship with you now, and of course we must share information."
At this point, Zhou Shi heard footsteps coming from the stairs and quickly stopped. The conversation continued after the dishes were placed and Agui stepped back.
"For some unknown reason, the degree of decomposition of the corpse was very light. We used portraits to find out the origin of 80% of the corpses, and they were all in Jiangdu. The rest are still under investigation. However, it is basically certain that these deceased people were all people from around Jiangdu.
In addition, the examination of the corpses found that apart from the rumors they received after they faked their corpses, they had no fatal injuries and the cause of death was difficult to confirm."
Zhou Shi expressed his guess: "Perhaps he was killed by some evil means."
"This is also our idea. But what happened next is weird. After the corpse fraud occurred in the Yichunyuan case, two corpses were missing. Did you know?"
Zhou Shi nodded, this was what Zhao Xuan told him when he first arrived at Fengde Building.
"Just yesterday, a murder occurred in the west of the city."
He paused, seemingly considering Zhou Shi's ability to bear it.
"The murderer is a corpse."
Zhou Shi immediately reacted: "Is it the missing body? No, how do you know it was those two bodies that did it?"
This reaction surprised He Shouxin. From what he said, it seemed that it was common for corpses to come out and hurt people.
"Well, Mr. Zhao invited a gentleman who was good at looking at the qi, and he found that the scene had the same yin qi as Yichunyuan's corpse."
The art of gazing...
"Who is the deceased?"
"Have you heard of Shi Shenghui, the master of Hunlongquan?"
Zhou Shi nodded. Hunlongquan is very famous in Jiang, with many disciples and many masters, and it is spread among the people.
"He is the deceased."
"Ah... Let's put it this way, the walking zombie is very powerful."
"Yes, Mr. Zhao said he was the 'No. 1 puncher in the Eight Hundred Miles River'. He did have some skills. But he died in a terrible way. It seems that the corpse is better."
After Zhou Shi weighed it a little, he told the story of encountering a walking corpse at Wu Zhaokun's home, but concealed Luo Ziqing's involvement.
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After He Shouxin heard this, he was very shocked. It turned out that there were walking corpses in Jiangdu... No, shopkeeper Zhou could defeat the walking corpses one against two. In terms of boxing and kicking skills alone, it was better than Shi Shenghui, the "number one puncher in the Eight Hundred Miles River"! It seems that I really underestimated him...
"But I let one of the two zombies escape, and the person who operated it should be the person who made the zombie. I'm afraid he also played the same role in the Yichunyuan case."
Driving corpses itself is just a skill to drive corpses back home, while artificially using corpses to transform corpses is an unheard-of witchcraft, and it can basically be done by the same person.
"That's it...this is very important information. The murderer is probably still in Jiangdu!"
He Shouxin said, stood up and said: "I will go back and report to Mr. Zhao, and I will come back to you in two days."
After saying that, he dropped the meal money and rushed out through the curtains.
Zhou Shi sat back at the table, looked at the untouched dishes on the table, and called Agui up.
"Heat these three dishes, bring them with the wine, and send them to Master Zhao of Jiangdu Yamen."
If you say "Master He", people in the yamen may not know who it is. But they will certainly not forget the gold-medal detective who tried to take away important parts of their bodies.
Agui responded and said: "Mr. Wang Yinchang is here."
"So early?" It's not yet lunch time, and it seems that Wang Yinchang is going out to help others again.
"Yes...but he doesn't look good, as if something happened..."
Zhou Shi understood what Agui meant. "Okay, I'll go take a look."
Returning to the first floor, he saw Wang Yinchang drinking alone at the table, but there was only a plate of cucumbers on the table, and his favorite golden meat and liver tips were missing. Not only that, he was usually well-dressed today.
He was wearing a dirty coat, beads on his hands, and a belt around his waist.
"Mr. Wang! You came early enough today!"
However, Wang Yinchang was staring at the wine cup in a daze, and it took him a while to realize that it was Zhou Shi who was greeting him.
"Ah, shopkeeper... morning, morning..."
This is completely different from the usually angry person... Zhou Shi got straight to the point: "You don't look well. Did you not sleep well last night?"
When he mentioned last night, Wang Yinchang's hands trembled obviously, and his eyes showed the desire to talk.
"Shopkeeper Zhou, I...well, I encountered a strange thing last night..."