After seeing the person clearly, Jonathan returned to his usual calm demeanor. Seeing his face change as fast as flipping through a book, Lin Chong just wanted to curse.
Because there was only one bed in a room, the children were okay and slept together. Zhou Ze and Jonathan couldn't squeeze in. Jonathan probably felt sorry for Zhou Ze, a weak scholar, and took the initiative to move the bedding and make a bed on the floor.
The sound of Lin Chong coming in finally woke up Zhou Ze. The latter looked at Lin Chong standing barefoot at the door in bewilderment. "Your Majesty...Um, Young Master, what's wrong with you?"
Only then did Lin Chong remember the purpose of coming here. "I saw the murderer."
"What?" the two people said in unison.
"That's right, there was a sound of rummaging through things just next door to me, so I braved myself and wanted to go out and take a look. Maybe he heard my voice too, and he was already gone when I passed by."
Zhou Ze couldn't help but raise his forehead, "My Majesty, you are so helpless that you still dare to go out alone. You are really lucky that you didn't get hacked to death."
Lin Chong didn't care about this. "Although I don't know clearly when I see it, I think it's a man." "Is he really a man who likes to use rouge and gouache?"
Lin Chong shook his head: "I don't know, I didn't smell anything." After muttering for a while, Zhou Ze finally persuaded Lin Chong to be sent back to rest.
Jonathan dug out a small and exquisite bow from his big bag, which was exactly the one that Lin Chong had longed for before. Satisfied, he hugged his treasure back to his room. Zhou Ze and Jonathan were disturbed by him, but
can not fall asleep.
He couldn't sleep and had to find something to do. Zhou Ze snuck into Jonathan's big bag and wanted to get some weapons for self-defense. How could Jonathan not understand what he meant. He picked a foldable dagger from the bag and gave it to him.
give him.
Zhou Ze was in a very happy mood. He was afraid that Jonathan would regret taking the things back, so he lay motionless on the bed holding the dagger and pretended to be dead.
Jonathan is actually quite happy that these little things of his can help others, and he is also very happy that others can like these things, but he is just not very good at expressing his emotions, so he always gives people a sinister feeling of déjà vu.
Lin Chong spent the next day in the room next door where the murderer rummaged through boxes and cabinets. He hoped to find some clues left by the murderer.
He didn't leave during meal time. It was only in the evening that he felt very hungry. Since he hadn't been told to leave food for him, he thought of sneaking to the kitchen to see what he could eat.
After arriving in the kitchen, he carefully began to look around. It was night now, no one was eating, and no one wanted midnight snacks. How could there be anything to eat in the kitchen?
After rummaging for a long time and finding nothing, Lin Chong prepared to leave in dismay. When he passed by the meat cutting and stewing table, he seemed to smell something strange.
It can't be said to be strange, it was a very refreshing smell. But how could a kitchen smell like this in the middle of the night? Lin Chong was curious, so he ran to Zhou Ze and Jonathan in the middle of the night and started a quarrel between them.
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Regardless of their protests, he just pulled them into the kitchen. Zhou Ze was still in a state of confusion and didn't know anything, but Jonathan's expression changed. "This smell is the smell I've smelled on corpses before.
."
"Are you sure?" Lin Chong was excited.
"This is the smell you smelled before. What does it mean? Do you mean the murderer has been in the kitchen?"
Lin Chong shook his head: "I can't confirm what it is yet. I'll know when I ask the boss tomorrow."
The manager of the Yuelai Inn knew that these people were in charge of investigating the case in the store, so naturally he knew everything they wanted to ask and didn't dare to hide anything. What's more, he was more concerned than anyone in his heart.
Everyone hopes that this case can be solved quickly, but the situation now has a great impact on his business.
Lin Chong took the shopkeeper to the kitchen and asked him what the fragrant smell in the kitchen was. The shopkeeper didn't know much, but the chef here told him that the fragrant smell was used to remove oil stains and fishy smells.
Cleanser for children.
In order to ensure cleanliness and tidiness in their store, they have been using this cleaner to clean all meat cutting knives, chopping boards and tables in the kitchen.
Lin Chong, Zhou Ze and Jonathan looked at each other in confusion. They did not expect that the so-called rouge gouache that had been bothering them was actually just a cleanser for removing oil stains and stains. So their initial assumption of thinking about women was wrong.
Now that he was talking about this, Lin Chong naturally thought of the guy mentioned a few days ago who often made mistakes and earned half the salary of others.
The shopkeeper also said that he was fine with chopping wood and carrying water, so he must often help in the kitchen. He had enough time and conditions to take away the cheapest knife in the blacksmith shop.
In fact, Lin Chong felt that something was wrong before. Since he had the strength and ideas, why did he have to find a job that he was not good at and only needed half the salary to do it? If he went to other places, he would definitely earn much more than here.
The wages were paid. And it happened to be such a coincidence that something happened within a few days of him coming to the store.
According to the shopkeeper's records, the waiter was recruited after the woman checked into the inn.
In other words, after this woman moved to an advanced inn, the waiter only had half the salary and lowered his status to come to this inn to work as a laborer. Lin Chong did not believe this was a coincidence.
In the past, they had always concluded that an acquaintance committed the crime because there were no signs of damage to the door, and it was obvious that the deceased opened the door to the murderer on his own initiative, so they had always speculated that the murderer and the deceased must have known each other.
But the situation may not be like this at all. Except for people you know, if the innkeeper knocks on the door and says there is something important, the guest will most likely open the door and let him in without any precautions.
The more Lin Chong thought about it, the more he felt that this possibility was very high.
He couldn't wait to pull Zhou Ze and Jonathan back to the room and told them his speculation. Lin Chong put Song Fang's small package on the table and took out the contents one by one.
But to be honest, he really felt that there was nothing of value. Except for the jade pendant, he picked up the jade pendant and looked at it carefully. "Do you think the thing the murderer is looking for is in this jade pendant?"
Here, after breaking this jade pendant, you can see some mysteries hidden inside?"
Jonathan also looked at the jade pendant and shook his head to express that it was unlikely.
Lin Chong held the jade pendant with both hands and made a breaking motion: "Maybe I can break this thing apart with just a little force." Lin Chong joked, but before he finished his joke, his whole body suddenly stopped.